outmoded

They think that somehow they shouldn't work too little because of some sense of a work ethic based on economic systems that are now outmoded.

Books are an outmoded medium because they involve a single person speaking from authority.

Using outmoded metrics is an insidious and wasteful form of protectionism.

Oh, and drop the DRM and the military police style back-channel raids on New Zealand residents who choose to make a point of their untenable and laughably outmoded outlook.

As an aside, I really feel like Apple is losing the plot with their latest batch of UIs. Wooden end panels, birch bookshelves, the glossy reflective dock, leather-bound notebooks etc, all smack of a lack of imagination and an timid need to convey value in outmoded terms.

A quick question to everyone who is asserting that aggregation, social media, and citizen journalism makes traditional, for-pay news outmoded:What if Watergate happened today?

I'd like to highlight this part of the article:> In several of the protests, drivers aren't specifically targeting Uber and other service providers, but what they say is outmoded regulation that makes it hard for them to compete.

You may say that it is now outmoded, or that the current implementation is a horrifying mutation of the original intent, but it's hard to argue that copyright is some late comer whose purpose is to trample our long-cherished freedom of speech.

They are outmoded because they are often long and hard to read, so those of us raised around the distractions of technology can’t be bothered to follow them; and besides, they concern foreign worlds, dominated by dead white guys with totally antiquated ideas and attitudes.

The feminist perspective is an outsider perspective that seeks to understand the true workings of the world, asks questions that others find awkward, disrupts outmoded institutions where necessary, and seeks to empower those who are often misunderstood and mistreated by society.

A lot of comments seem to reflexively interpret this as a musician defending outmoded conceptions of intellectual property - that's there, but he also does a thoughtful job of counterbalancing - but the heart of it is placing Swartz, Wikileaks et al in the context of other civil disobedience movements.