Network centrism was perfectly matched to the ethos of the dot.com boom, and thus it found a ready audience in the popular culture.

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Big Bang helped facilitate privatisation, demystifying the share-buying process that many ordinary people had found a stumbling block, thus allowing people to simply walk into their banks and order a parcel of shares.

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Thus, the next Google may be found on a grocery shelf and not at a web address.

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