FReeper Carry_Okie: In defense of people, the number of technologies necessary to master in order to fix anything is beyond human capability.
IMHO this brings us more to a need for community, both in the family and as neighbors. My son-in-law and daughter lives 20 miles away in a very remote area in which the only internet is StarLink. I live close enough to "town" to have better and cheaper internet service through Spectrum. I also have lots of solar and battery storage. So when the power goes out at my daughter's house, she and her husband stay with me and he brings his Starlink equipment. If the grid is down in my area too I don't have land internet, even if my house has power (through solar). Between the two of us, we have both power and internet.
The same with helping each other fix each other's cars before we give up and take it to a mechanic. The same with work on the home (though I'll admit I'll pay for a professional with major plumbing or electrical). The same with managing each other's investments. (I designed the portfolios and for a while manage them whenever they said they want to invest each paycheck. Now my "kids" do it with me looking over their shoulder --- just sort by balance and invest into whichever mutual fund has the lowest balance to buy low. Opposite for selling when they help me handle my mother's retirement withdrawals -- sell high.)
Admittedly, to FReeper Carry_Okie's point, there's still the issue of being unable to fix individual components like we used to. (i.e. Fixing this laptop's motherboard wouldn't be as easy as the times my father had me crawl into a console TV and tell him color codes on resisters as well as readings from the voltage/ohms meter.) And our knowledge tends to be more specialized and less general (i.e. my decades experience as a programmer, mainly on the back-end data side, has made some nice coin but those skills aren't applicable to my family except how I used them to download market data and query the stew out of it to build investment plans, and query the telemetry from our solar equipment to see if it's working well and which parts were feasible to upgrade and get goody out of it or add insulation because the furnace ran more than I realized even after we were in the house with the doors shut for the day).
Useless when the Internet itself isn't powered.