Re:The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs
by segmondy on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @02:33PM
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I wonder when this will happen to google and facebook. Happend to Xerox Labs, then Bell Labs/lucent. It's hard to imagine google and facebook being ghosts from the past, but everything must end at some point right?
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Re:The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs
by a3n on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @02:50PM
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And Microsoft.
When a company gets big enough, the people who operate the machine that is the company become more prominent than the people that do what the company is supposedly in existence for. Because when a company gets that big, the sole reason it exists is to make money, and what it does to make money is incidental. In that sense, Google is exactly the same as Kroger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger
Every large billion dollar company is doomed to be a large billion dollar company.