If it was invented when you were 20-40 it's new but you're willing to adopt it after some consideration.
If it was invented after you're 40 it's against the natural order of things and must be destroyed.
It's not that they are dumb or obtuse, in their world you have to understand the risk first, then you can use it. It's like the Japanese and baseball. In the USA it's balls then strikes, in Japan, it's strikes then balls. Older people think about strikes, younger people just think about balls.
This is actually pretty good advice for smartphones, too.
Okay, it won't hack off your leg, but it may affect your life profoundly and adversely in ways that are not obvious at first.
I think it is apt and we are collectively ignoring how dangerous new technology and technological trends are or can be because we can use them without understanding anything about them (I'd argue even their creators understand little about them).