Work it out for yourself

Here are four facts: -

1. In 1969 I invented the videophone. Whilst this invention was at an advanced stage in my mind sufficient for me to share the conceptual details with E W Hildick, the acclaimed author, I did not actually produce a working prototype.


2. In 2006 it is commonplace to see people walking around with these phones that can both play videos and take photographs.


3. In the 1960's and 1970's people who walked around seemingly talking to themselves (or voices in their own head) were locked up and put in mental institutions.


4. Now it is commonplace to see people walking around seemingly talking to themselves, whereas in fact they are simply using "Bluetooth" headsets to talk on a "hands free" basis via their mobile phone.

Here are four questions: -

1. Is the current short of world class inventors in the UK partly due to the fact that we locked many of them up in the 60's and 70's?


2. Are those people who are currently walking around seemingly talking to themselves just using a "Bluetooth" headset to hide the fact that they are actually talking to themselves AND should actually be locked up in a mental institution?


3. If parliament is an institution, and much of what is said within in it appears to be "mental", does that make it....?


4. Should the practice of locking people up in mental institutions in the 60's and 70's have been extended to include at least one more person?