This is my third attempt typing this, hopefully it won't crash YET AGAIN...
There was a big kerfuffle recently in the blogosphere (I hate that word) with a silly little feud between certain "modern" and "traditional" quilt bloggers... It opened a big debate on what it means to be a modern quilter, and what was decided was that no one can agree on what that means.
Quilting, just like any artform, will have new techniques and styles as time passes, which may or may not be accepted by the quilting "establishment" (those who have been around longer). But like every other form of art, old techniques will be carried on, rediscovered and adapted and combined with the new, and quilting is the better for it. Neither is good or bad.