The travel chaos last Friday was a reminder of just how much life depends on Big Software doing its job. The air-traffic control centre at Swanwick was six years late and hundreds of millions over budget when it opened in 2002 in shiny new offices, but with software still based on an upgraded, old system.
Unnoticed and unsung, however, this government may actually have found a way to bring the horrid history of big, public IT projects to an end.
