I have a 2000+sq ft of model railroad layout in my basement. It is controlled by a digital command control system with a dozen wireless handsets (throttles). All my engines have built in sound. The layout used advance electronic circuit breakers and such.
I have used DCC from within a couple years of it being released and older systems for a long time before that.
I have a pc that I use to program my engines. I have a CNC router cutter that use to build models and I am thinking about getting a 3D printer or a laser cutter.
I USE advanced technology build and control my layout. But my layput is not realy advanced technology. Not in the way things like computer games smart, phones, virtual reality, etc are advanced technology.
Kids moved away from trains starting in the 60s and were almost gone by the 70s. Just as electronic games came out. I know trains were all but dead as a common toy in the mid 70s as I was a kid then and I was the only kid I know in my school, my friends, or my family that still had a train. And even I got into electronic games and the computers and computer games.
To keep them you have to eliminate that. And that is basically ASB
As much as I love trains nothing is going to change that.