We're living in an technological era where things are getting easier all the time, devices are getting smaller all the time, and physical things replaced by digital all the time.
Perhaps as a consequence--having gotten used to easy access to many things with but a few mouse clicks: pictures, communication, movies, music, news--I found that I am becoming more and more put off by "inconvenience" imposed by the real world. For example, if I have to open a box underneath a pile of other stuff in order to get to a CD (thus risking accidental spilling), I'll groan and perhaps give up and just download the thing from the internet, thanks to everything become more and more available digitally.
But really, if I actually perform the physical feat of removing the pile of stuff and opening the box to get what I want (and of course, putting those back together once finished), it's not bad at all. It's the psychological barrier telling me "this is really inconvenient."
Indeed, physical objects are rapidly being replaced by digital, and are getting more and more obsolete.