Quote - Could it be that all this shit is the same as it ever was and they just keep renaming it and rebranding it to pretend it's an advancement?

In many cases, yes it is. Almost all of the marvelous new technological products are based on a 100-150 years old theory. A fresh released product that you think that is something new and revolutionary is nothing more than a 50 years old conception. Is common to fabricats release a 20 years old product with a new layout and people to believe that is something new.

What really has changed is that products can be very small, the speed of digital electronics improved hundred or thousand times and the most important, the cost. It are very cheap today, so everyone can have it.

Products are conceived and created, but many times its cost is very high, very few people will be able to buy it and so, the product is never released to the market. 30 years later someone finds in the dusty archives the project and find that can be manufactored by reasonable cost and the product is rteleased to the market and propaganda makes believe people that is something new and revolutionary. And many products created today will have to wait 20 or 30 years waiting for the drop of its cost.

Stupidity also evolves!