Aging

Knowledge about static fields (like electric ones) has been disappearing from common awareness for awhile.

That's an extremely, extremely - an extremely I can't  emphasize enough - bad loss of knowledge.

There are 2 reasons for this:

1. Our aging process will become more and more determined by them as the technologies we've chosen dominate.
2. We can't understand our universe and continue to advance civilization without it.

More reasons exist and they're important.  But those 2 tend to interest our full minds.

There's nothing particularly poor about the transition to digital technologies.  That's been a stepping stone while progress was needed.

Digital may not be the best or only solution once we've reached out beyond one planet.  That may be a dissenting opinion and will go no where - let's assume it's not backwards.

Maybe someone(s) at a space agency represented by 4 letters would provide an assist on that?