I have no problem with people who grew up in the past millennium and never caught up.
Indeed .... they seemed to have survived pretty well AND provided the environment that allowed the "Information Age" to thrive.
But kids that live glued up to their spyphones and never stop to consider where the data go, that's a different matter.
I could not disagree more.
When I first started getting into computers, physical location of data was part of the planning process. In my first job, I worked on an IBM mainframe and you specified the location of the tracks to be used for each file. The same file would always be located in exactly the same place.
When I moved to a company that had implemented the next evolution, specifying the file location was simply given with pack name and size. You no longer had to know where the data was on that volume - you had to trust that the computer would keep track of that. This was very unnerving at first, but I got used to it.
THIS is the start of travelling down the path that we find ourselves in today. Physical location of data became less important, as the capabilities of system software to keep track of it improved to the point where the biggest question is "Do I have enough space on my 4TB drive?" Then we step into the realm of internet connected storage - remote servers, off site backups, repositories and that nebulous concept of "the cloud".
Software has evolved to blur the edges, so that we can refer to a file on our own hard drive or somewhere in the cloud with pretty much the same ease. For those who are not tech savvy, this makes using computing devices so much easier - as long as they follow the corporate guidelines and trust those who set them up. They no longer NEED to understand any detail in order to use those resources - so why would they even try? When the magic saviour of data - aka "syncing" - that makes the loss of a physical device inconsequential (other than the purchase cost of a replacement) is added into the mix, many will just give control of their data over to the corporate beast without considering the implications - not just because it's easier, but because they don't have the skills to understand anything more than the marketing spiel. The "trust" issue is dismissed in the direction of "If they screw up, they'll get sued".
The evolution of the motor vehicle is a perfect parallel. When they first appeared, you would not only need to know how to drive it, you would need to know how to fault find and fix it. These days, that is no longer the case ... and, in fact, manufacturers are now adding systems that make it more and more difficult, if not impossible, to fix vehicles.
Why would kids "never stop to consider where the data go"...? It's very simple. They don't
need to.