The same could be said of the word processor. It replaces the typewriter because it not only makes quickly-written text more legible, as the older machine does, but also infinitely more malleable. There is another element to my distaste for a completely digital world, and it has been sneaking in the periphery of the above paragraphs. A world that is too digital is a world I cannot make my own. In many older cars, I can just pop open the hood and poke around to see if anything needs to be repaired.
New technology takes away that ability.
Many cars have migrated into an era of higher specialization, rendering the practice of humans poking under the hood archaic. If my modifications are not anticipated by the chip, the timing is thrown off, leading to many ill effects, not least among them a bent piston. And again, if I mess with that chip and break it, I have just made a costly repair necessary. Windows is not stable enough to be almost maintenance-free like the Macintosh operating system. Yet, even though I have to mess with some of its guts to repair it when it blows up in my face, I can't get into many of the guts that would allow me to meaningfully change the system.