It was a succinct statement, but one with an almost revolutionary significance. "The internet changes everything," Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief executive, said in London recently. Like other US-based leaders in the information technology industry, he believes that companies and other organisations must put the net right at the centre of their strategic plans.

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