Non-technical people will not hesitate to adopt online services to manage their data. I have a dropbox and other services of my own, but I'm talking about the m

Non-technical people will not hesitate to adopt online services to manage their data. I have a dropbox and other services of my own, but I'm talking about the mainstream apps mentioned in the article that also have a purpose. People completely ignore the fact you would have no access to this data if you have no online connection (or access to the account). It's not that files are going away, it's that they're being increasingly managed by tech companies, and normal people don't know any better, as evident by the article's title... it shows the author doesn't what files are for and that they are invisibly managed by a third party.