Today's technology is awesome. However, it is only a part of one's life. One can still do wonders with very minimal technology. One need not become too dependent.
Hey, FORTRAN was robust! lol A few decades ago, there was still a ton of legacy code in FORTRAN libraries used by scientists...from decades before that.
The cheapness of RAM & ROM, and ubiquity of fast clocks has made programmers lazy.
@Northwest It is an amazing piece of equipment. That will be a rather sad moment, somehow, when it finally turns off, even though all machines wear out eventually.
And there it will still be, but I don't know if it will keep moving ever further from the Sun or go into a comet-style orbit.
