Operating systems and applications will no longer run only on the employee's PC but on a virtual machine in a data centre that can be accessed remotely, theoretically from any PC in the world.

Nearly 100 countries now have national systems in place to report ADRs to the database managed by the WHO Collaborating Centre, the Uppsala Monitoring Centre.

Dubai, for example, has spent billions of dollars setting up the legal and supervisory systems to underpin its new financial centre.