This may be more of what I have been seeing a lot of lately...
Call it a kind of blind faith in technology.

Apparently the pace of technology has exceeded the ability of some to understand it thoroughly. This includes Doctors, Lawyers and people with advanced degrees. It is easier, and less time consuming to just blindly accept that the little box does "x" when you push button "y" than to admit a short coming in understanding and actually do something about it... like learn.

Unfortunately as the pace of technological development accelerates, the percentage of people who chose "blind faith" as a way to go through life will also increase.