Technology is a perfect example though for me as much as I use it I despise it too and for the same reason I despise anything that prompts me to lay aside something good and functional to be replaced by some other thing....that is not as well made but touts all the "NEW" bells and whistles.
You will get those that argue that yeah but look how much easier it makes your life and look how much better this makes that seem of work or....whatever.
Forced Obsolescence is only good for creating and  promoting existing jobs.
As much as I can agree with the notion of all the new stuff making my life easier......I still dream of of having only 3 or 4 TV channel choices and of the fun I had not finding anything interesting on the boob tube, went out and had some real fun doing real things in the real world instead of laying like a dead walrus married to the remote scanning hundreds of useless cable channels wondering why my life sucks! I can't begin to describe the joy of going to a real night club or to a real party where real people met others instead of spending hours sitting at my damn computer at "Social Gather" web sites chatting with Jack The Ripper or Cross Eyed Mary wondering how they would like to someday meet for coffee.
I can't begin to describe the hours I worked in the darkroom getting a black and white print "Just Right" , or the hours, high on some great illegal substance or other and totally focused, I worked an image on illustration board with my Rapid-O-Graph pens and going "AHHH" when sober or straight I saw the real fruits of those efforts. . I still have ALL those images, BTW...for all the obsolescence of the technology used to create them. yet I can't begin to tell you how many valuable digitally created images i have lost because of this damn "Impermanent" and freaking fickle technology..and NO MATTER HOW I HAVE BACKED UP STUFF...or tried.  :(

We can't go back to the past but I sure hate looking forward to the future thinking how much more simple and effortless and "throw-Away", lonely, empty and valueless  my life will become.  :(