I might be alone in this opinion, but it seems the abandoned Semantic Web would have helped here had we all adopted it. Commoditized API stories such as "order

I might be alone in this opinion, but it seems the abandoned Semantic Web would have helped here had we all adopted it. Commoditized API stories such as "order groceries" or "refill prescription" or "book a flight" would have a semantic level interaction instead of pixel one. Your user agent could act on your behalf through that API. With that in place, flashy UI sites can be built on top of the same API and kill several avians with one rock.