Wild how 1994 was sufficiently advanced so that 30 more years does not obviate those systems or make them inadequate for resistance. I wonder what this implies

Wild how 1994 was sufficiently advanced so that 30 more years does not obviate those systems or make them inadequate for resistance. I wonder what this implies about adversaries that are on older systems here, or about the human response capability if otherworldly adversaries with systems 30-50 years more advanced than the ones we have somehow made their way here, like in Independence Day.