The grant which helped to establish that in the first place and to sustain it through its development at times when it had no commercial return and when it had no relevance to society day by day again came from government. It is that spark of innovation which those government grants fostered at the time in the development of the first programmable computer and the development of the Internet and finally in the development the world wide web browser that now makes the Internet user friendly in a way that even members of parliament and school students can use them with great effect these days. That all came from initial government grants. The Internet and the whole computing environment change the very way in which we perceive society. The concept of distributed intelligence has to be the new metaphor for our society.
Industry is constrained in the way they do things.
They are required to do more with less. That is the way they drive their bottom line and maximise their profit. Industry, of course, is constrained to act in that way. That is quite reasonable in the context of our current industrial age understanding but the information age into which this country is rapidly moving demands a whole new way of thinking and it provides the tools to do it with. But the concept of distributed intelligence and information age technology is fundamentally underlined by sustained research, development and innovation.