![]() I also want to know who the Jon Gertner, Tracy Kidder, or Scott Rosenberg of OpenStack will be. ![]() That model no longer works in our modern competitive environment, and I am left wondering how we will manage to make the next fundamental leap forward (and what that leap will be) when most businesses can’t afford to take such a long view, and most research universities struggle for funding. Most of the book talks about a different era, when attitudes about monopolies were different and pure research was funded with fewer expectations of immediate profit. Silicon Valley’s achievements are typically viewed through the lens of innovations that. Gertner’s writing moves along at a nice steady pace, and he tells the stories with a good balance of scientific detail – not so much that you need a physics degree, but enough that you understand the difficulty and significance of the work. Jon Gertner is the author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. I love these sorts of books, that talk about engineers and scientists solving problems and discovering how the world works. ![]() ![]() It’s a history of Bell Labs and its impact on modern technology. From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labsofficially, the research and development wing of AT&Twas the biggest, and arguably the best. I just finished reading The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner. The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies. ![]()
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