Mr. Adrian Lovett:

We are still very focused on that fight for net neutrality, most particularly in the United States, where there was a great step forward, and now we are fighting to re-secure that several years on; we have not given up on that fight.

On the broader question, it is true that we cannot turn back the clock. Tim Berners-Lee and others of those Internet pioneers would not want us to do that. Channelling some of the inspiration and vision of those early days and applying it to the very different times we find ourselves in now, it may be time to think about a new connecting imperative. Perhaps this might help. I was talking a little while ago to one of the chief executive officers of one of the big airlines. I was asking him what his focus was. He was quite new in the job, six months in, and said obviously his was an airline company so the first priority is safety. He went on to talk about the things I thought he was going to talk about around the brand, staff relations, and so on. He got me thinking then about the aviation industry being a place where businesses make healthy profits and provide a service to customers but also where public safety is the first priority and where companies are required to co-operate with each other, as well as with regulators. There is zero-tolerance of mistakes and a significant degree of transparency. If we agree that the Internet can not only improve and enhance lives, upon which we all agree, but that it can also profoundly damage and - it is not too much of an overstatement - can cost lives, then surely the evidence is that we could agree that for companies on the web, the universally-accepted imperative must be public safety. That might be a new driver for how we organise all of this thinking for the next 30 years, quite different from the thinking that has prevailed for the past 30.