It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable technologies and products. This is also effectively the story of Bel…
the main innovations they got were touchtone phones replacing rotary ones and higher bills.
That’s incredibly incorrect.
Bell labs invented or laid the groundwork for, among other things:
Movies with synchronous sound
Text-to-speech
Stereo broadcasts
Radio astronomy
The transistor
Unix
The C programming language
The calculator
Solar electricity
Transatlantic telephone cables
LASER
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (this was part of the framework for cell phones. In the 1960s)
Take your anti-research propaganda out of here. Government backed scientists who don’t have shareholders holding them accountable are crucial to progress. Capitalism is toxic to scientific progress. Great for improving around existing concepts, terrible for making new ones.
That’s incredibly incorrect.
Bell labs invented or laid the groundwork for, among other things:
Take your anti-research propaganda out of here. Government backed scientists who don’t have shareholders holding them accountable are crucial to progress. Capitalism is toxic to scientific progress. Great for improving around existing concepts, terrible for making new ones.