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to quote Ray Jardine: "if given the choice between Nature and technology, choose nature. Because technology will let you down".
That's a great way to say it, and I often forget just how much frustration computers can cause me. And yet, they are marvelous toys!
To be fair, much of the problem about technology is not so much an inherent one as is one of sprawling complexity and, as you have mentioned, planned obsolescence, the latter a good reminder not to buy new computers at all!
Nature wins all-out, nothing anyone can do about it - (also there is no equivalent to nature, so a dicothomy can't exist in this respect).
This, too. In the end, Nature is always bound to win the match, and there really isn't a choice between one or the other. If I chose computers, I would have to be buying new computers all the time. The reason I wanted to buy another computer is because my old little hackbook is quite beaten. Perhaps it's better for me to repair it and fight the currents of planned obsolescence.
Being myself a rather technical person, who likes to play with formal systems and stuff like that, most of my interest has actually been directed towards mathematics, languages, and other such complex systems, ones that are not actually bound to technology. However, I am still using technology to learn about them, as I have already said.
Anyway, thank you for reminding me that I would do a lot better repairing my failing devices, instead of running the treadmill of planned obsolescence. After all, I have plenty of stuff outside of the computer to keep me busy without having to be enslaved to these devilish devices!
What's wrong with you people: becoming enamoured of the likes of computers and nature when there's some perfectly good American politics to be getting angry at/with each other over?!? :P