I think there's a truth in that though. Rice cookers - decades ago they had no electronics, and was just a case of pressing a switch to complete a circuit to create heat. My grand mother use one that is older than I am. Nowadays rice cookers are full of electronics, I doubt they can last as long. Of course, survivorship bias is still in play here...
>decades ago they had no electronics, and was just a case of pressing a switch to complete a circuit to create heat.
Not disputing your point but that 'old' style of rice cooker is very much still being sold. I have one, recently bought, with just the one switch ('warm' and 'cook' - you have to unplug it to even turn it off) and I use it constantly. Though with electronics in general, you're probably right. Particularly networked devices, game consoles, anything using proprietary software or data formats or which is designed to depend on the cloud.
We're going to regret as a civilization in 100 years when most of our collected wisdom and intelligence has simply vanished into the aether or become utterly unreadble, but find that cuneiform tablets are still around.
