Functional obsolescence reduces property desirability due to outdated, hard-to-alter features. It includes curable issues (fixable by renovation) and incurable ones (costly or impossible to fix).

It may be the nostalgic lament of our grandparents’ generation, but it’s true: so many products just aren’t built to last anymore. And that’s not just down the race to the bottom inevitably created by ...

Workforces facing obsolescence sometimes behave in mysterious ways. Often, wages wind up spiking in an occupation at risk of disappearing. We examine what this means for the workforce as AI advances.

Planned obsolescence is a business strategy in which the obsolescence (the process of becoming obsolete—that is, unfashionable or no longer usable) of a product is planned and built into it from its ...

In 2015, Apple unveiled the iPhone Upgrade Program — a slick subscription model that lets devotees pay a monthly hardware fee directly to the manufacturer, with an option to trade in their phone for ...

, e-waste becomes a major cause of air pollution and increased levels of air particulate matter. The various environmental effects associated with planned obsolescence and its consequent uptick in ...

The conspiracy theory that Apple uses iOS as a tool of forced iPhone obsolescence is complete BS, and I can prove it.

Obsolescence: An Architectural History, by Daniel M. Abramson, University of Chicago Press, February 2016, 208 pages, $35. While all buildings are subject to the decay and ruin brought by time, ...

Jonathan Coopersmith is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. In addition to killing over a million Americans, Covid-19 revealed embarrassing failures of local, state, and national public health ...

Planned obsolescence not only is exploitative, it could cause serious delays when tools and equipment need to be urgently repaired. A John Deere tractor. John Deere has attempted to employ practices ...

Across industries, therapists and workplace counselors are hearing a recurring theme in sessions: fear of being replaced by ...