The symptoms of pop culture:

• A “disdain for history”. Pop cultures believe history doesn’t have anything to teach them.
• Newer is automatically better. Pop cultures are built on the assumption that anything new or different is superior to established. Or, in other words, older is inherently inferior.
• What’s next is going to be superior to what’s now. Pop cultures exist in perpetual anticipation of the next trend. Their disbelief of history appears to outsiders as a belief in progress.
• The “Pop” in “Pop Culture” stands for “popularity”. If it’s popular then it must be right.

These traits are deeply irrational but they are the tech industry’s default mode of operation.