Is Bell Labs the most innovative technology collective in all of human history?
Is Bell Labs the most innovative technology collective in all of human history?
Brandon Taylor
Gabriel Davis
Nope they are just really lucky that they hired Ken Thompson.
Adrian Phillips
The people at Berkeley who completed the periodic table. But that was after the atom bomb so idk. Big atom technology isn't as ubiquitous as transistors.
Michael Reed
they're completely irrelevant now though
Jace Bennett
Dunning Kruger everyone!
Chase Walker
t. bell labs intern
name one thing they did which had impact ever since Nokia bought them
Even IBM Research is more relevant.
Easton Gomez
Xerox
Jace Bennett
After Intel, maybe
Christopher Wood
Los Alamos/The Manhattan Project/John von Neumann
Grayson Hughes
C isn't even near the top of the most influential inventions Bell Labs put out.
Fuck, C wouldn't even exist without the transistor, also created at Bell Labs.
The transistor wouldn't be doing complex computations (such as C) without information theory, which Claude E. Shannon developed while working at Bell Labs.
Let's not forget lasers, digital photos, and and solar panels.
Nathaniel Garcia
Bentley Brown
JSL was incredibly important in a lot of ways, but Bell Labs literally changed every person's life on the planet in multiple, major ways, including everyone alive today.
Andrew Russell
I meant JPL obviously
Jaxson Davis
The royal society for the duration of Imperial England at its peak was pretty impressive. Try and find a list of the actually big ones and google will tell you all you need to know about women.
Kayden Perry
Obviously.
Gavin Robinson
Bell Labs is proof that some monopolies need to exist for the greater good of society.
Kevin Edwards
Only if by bell labe you mean Apple
Caleb Rogers
DMT and interdimensional demons giving us tech.
Jeremiah Murphy
The transistor was invented by europeans before WWII, Bell labs even built and tested a design from one of their patents. The real problem was getting pure enough materials for transistors to work. tl;dr someone in America postwar made progress in industrial chemistry that allowed for transistors.
Leo Moore
Information theory is arguably still the most single important invention of the 20th century.
Aiden Sullivan
Ahem
Nathan Kelly
>Is Bell Labs the most innovative technology collective in all of human history?
No, it isn't.
Carson Cooper
No
Jacob Gomez
Why, yes. Telecoms were the frontier of applied math and physics for building real systems.
No theoretical bullshit, no monads, no category theories, no dark matter, no bullshit.
Also, for a monopoly to finance facilities where the best people (selected from the best schools) do almost whatever they want is the only way to innovate.
Innovation will never happen in a labor camp or a sweatshop, you fucking ex-commi degenerates.
Benjamin Taylor
PARC was much smaller and did much less.
However, the young Alan Kay was a gigachad
Bentley Bailey
Wish I could post from Mothra, having to use OpenBSD is OK but I want to go full 9front.