Anderson has said his review considered the safeguards to privacy, issues of transparency and oversight as well as the powers needed to meet the challenge of changing technologies.
That is why the UK and Australia are committed to scaling up financing - not just after 2012, but now, and why we are supporting the establishment of new funds administered by the World Bank for clean technologies, sustainable forestry, and for adaptation to climate change.
But at the same time, those recent warnings from the internet pioneer Vint Cerf about storage technologies becoming obsolete and the advent of a "digital dark age" highlight a profound fear: precious things are now only a corrupted hard drive or system upgrade away from being lost, for good.
"Investments in hard and soft technologies are fuelling a virtuous cycle by supplying cities with yet more new talent and consolidating their place as hubs of innovation and connectivity.
And we will withdraw if they are not also investing in technologies that tackle their emissions.
Vital technologies such as CCS will not be built at commercial scale if left to the market, and countries such as China and India, who get two thirds of their power from coal, would not be able to move to low-carbon growth.
New technologies have long turned up on the big screen before they've become reality.
After all, it is the scientific world that creates our future – affecting life expectancy, engineering new products and developing technologies that influence work and wages.
They may be subsumed into decorative jewellery like the Charmed technologies presented at cyber-fashion shows from Boston to Beijing, or the pendant computer Toshiba showed in concept form last year.
Their focus is on mandatory impact assessment of the potential risks that new technologies might create – but the only risk that it assesses is data protection.
As part of the discussions around them, the Committee on Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) have argued that any regulations need to strengthen citizens' rights, and restore trust around digital technologies.
