Parents grew up in the era before modern computers.

So it’s all magic to them.

The middle generations grew up in an era where computers were becoming common, but they were still nascent; you were frequently exposed to technical concepts and had to know some things about the technology to have a productive time using it, and there were often times it all went wrong and you had to look “under the covers”.

So we know what we’re doing.

And then kids now have grown up in an era where computers have become fully commoditised as phones and tablets, and the abstraction of the complexity behind a nice user interface is complete. A lot of kids have no idea what a ‘directory’ even is, because they’ve never had to know that.

So it’s all magic to them too.