And, despite occasional attempts to devolve power in line with Mr Cameron's "Big Society", the state will still fundamentally be the same shape, trying to do virtually all the same things.

Somewhere along the line, the browser stopped being an application to view Web pages and the occasional bit of multimedia, and became a vital part of the daily workflow for millions of users.

Further, you simply may not want to entrust the entirety of the command line to an occasional or inexperienced user.