The teams, through their umbrella organisation Fota, have made it clear they are keen tocomeupwith new ways of improving F1 - and that includes considering a new points system.
Media commentators hammered Gore who later admitted he mistakenly gave the impression that he had played a part in the invention of the Internet rather than in legislation that made it easier for the inventors tocomeupwith the technological breakthroughs.
And the fact that the Newsweek was able tocomeupwith ideas that made it past that gauntlet and got readers enabled them to work very good deals with advertisers.
It may very well have gone back to the telephone call that Bardeen and Brattain had made when they told him that they had comeupwith a - they had the transistor effect in the laboratory.
This has made it imperative that handset makers comeupwith different models of the same phone for different regions in order to support the multitude of LTE networks that have sprung up globally.