Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home

Re:Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares ... by jebarker on Sunday January 21, 2024 @03:29PM (#39082709)

Disney Imagineering? I have no direct experience but I'm continually impressed by the technical innovations they make public and the effects they manage to achieve in their products.

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Re:Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares ... by user_7832 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @03:33PM (#39082749)

Thanks, that sounds interesting.

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Re:Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares ... by fortran77 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @07:23PM (#39084540)

Worked for them for about 10 years. Fun place, but I'm not sure it'll ever be like the old days where research was done for research's sake. So many things are now off-the-shelf, and not much is invented in house.

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Re:Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares ... by ycombinatrix on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:29PM (#39085408)

all they can do is mechanical engineering. anything they ship involving software is usually an abject failure.

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