I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before.
What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
There is actually a cool NASA page that speaks to this and links to a subpage dedicated to spin-off technologies: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/human-spaceflight-technologies-benefitting-earth/
There is also a wiki article about this subject: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies