It's just a Simple Pattern that drives technologies, regardless of the era of their introduction, adoption & operation - old, modern or futuristic. A person can grow in multiple dimensions by just being aware of such a pattern.. it can be precise or can be a subset of a lesser perfect version from many possible variations depending on the imaginative-capabilities/life-experiences/general-awareness of the person.
I learn technologies by linking the real & virtual world in my own creative ways. This enables me to successively get closer to that one single god-like simple pattern.
My way of work is to apply that exact pattern I found to the project / technology / platform / framework which I use.
My short & sweet technical intro: I work on front-end and back-end technologies.