While scanning some old artifacts, I had the notion that old does not mean antiquated or useless.  Much of the current technology is practiced without skill. Always and every day, new ways of doing things are discovered and implemented. They are often abandoned and deprecated before adequately being used or developed.  It seems if it isn't new, it isn't appropriate for use!

It as if supper is cooked before lunch is done and breakfast is discarded and a snack takes its place. When lunch is done, the business of beginning to cook supper keeps its preparer from consuming lunch.

It has almost become such that new things are tried until they break, and then they are discarded rather than being fixed and made to work. The new things taking their place don't work quite in the same way and require tinkering and experimentation in lieu of reading the instructions or learning how the things work! Instead, the use of the device descends into use to take and send either a "selfie" or a picture of the food on the table in the restaurant having wi-fi and serving expensive drinks that are cousins of coffee, tea or milk.

Such is not the way I observe and use technology. I find something about which I can say "ItWorks", learn how to use it in useful and meaningful ways, taking time to gain skill in using it, usually beyond the time its first or second "upgrade" is introduced and support is dropped on the earlier, useful useable and used version.

To illustrate:  A comment was made recently regarding the calculation of the required resistance of a resistor for a switch tied to a Raspberry-Pi input.  The comment was something like this:  "how did you calculate the voltage drop for the input since the switch was rated 12Volts and the supply voltage was only 3.3 volts?"

Using technology without understanding its basics seems to be commonly practiced today.

It is called "Plug and Play" or something similar. If you plug it in and it doesn't play, you just ask for some non-expert help on a social-site, or the "geeks" you know as to what you need to do, not what you need to know.