Not Only the Elderly. . .
By which I mean, my 82y.o. mom has never been able to finally sort out the difference between the web browser, software, and a web site. It’s interesting because she’s been using computers for 30 years, and, was on the internet at home in the early nineties. She’s also a retired college vice president.
Oddly, whatever the ‘proposition’ is and whatever the ‘term’ is, neither have to be absolutely and concretely mediated prior to a user going out and just using their keyboard-mouse-screen to access different experiences provided by arrival at a web location.
If 8% can make this distinction, then I would guess client/server is well beyond the other 92%. So if web 3.0 is to be the semantic web, it’s not going to roll on top of a lot of user comprehension. This is somewhat in the direction of a cleanly carved out instrumentalism, with all the artificial-intelligent infrastructure in the black box, behind the browser so-to-speak.
The user is better off not knowing how “it” works!
