![]() ![]() Contrary to its gentle image of later years, created largely through one of the great public relations machines in corporate history, Ma Bell in its first few decades was close to a public menace-a ruthless, rapacious, grasping “Bell Octopus,” as its enemies would describe it to the press.But how they worked was to Edison less important. Edison’s genius lay in making new inventions work, or in making existing inventions work better than anyone had thought possible.With this in mind, one might think of a host of reasons to look back at these old inventions, these forgotten engineers, these lost worlds. Yet understanding the circumstances that led up to that unusual winter of 1947 at Bell Labs, and what happened there in the years afterward, promises a number of insights into how societies progress.Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. ![]()
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