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Recreating Bell Labs

Brian Potter | Construction Physics | 18th July 2024

Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T’s research arm, was the best industrial research lab in the world. It produced the transistor, the first videophone, the first fibre optic telephone cable and the UNIX operating system. Why don't we just recreate it? Because the world in which it thrived no longer exists. It was fuelled by WW2 discoveries and a vertically integrated monopoly (6,300 words)


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