What is a Browser?

Evidence that the majority of people don’t know what a browser is, and assume their browser application and the internet and Google are all kind of the same thing…

Part of me thinks that this is a worrying lack of knowledge. Not that I think everyone needs to be a computer expert, but if the majority of people knew this little about the car they drive, wouldn’t we be nervous?

As a computery person myself, I suppose I should be rubbing my hands together in glee at the rarity (and therefore value) of my knowledge. But instead I find myself wondering why so many people know so little about the technology that’s either changing their lives or leaving them behind. Is it good that people don’t appear to need to know stuff like this? And good for whom?