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Why study Bell Labs? It offers a number of lessons about how our country’s technology companies — and our country’s longstanding innovative edge — actually came about. Yet Bell Labs also presents a more encompassing and ambitious approach to innovation than what prevails today. Its staff worked on the incremental improvements necessary for a complex national communications network while simultaneously thinking far ahead, toward the most revolutionary inventions imaginable.
Indeed, in the search for innovative models to address seemingly intractable problems like climate change, we would do well to consider Bell Labs’ example — an effort that rivals the Apollo program and the Manhattan Project in size, scope and expense. Its mission, and its great triumph, was to connect all of us, and all of our new machines, together.
Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle
Article Source: The New York Times
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It's great you've high lighted Bell Lab's . Every time I see an article about clean renewable energy .
I think back to the mid 1950's . I remember our weekly reader and the nightly news telling about Bell Lab , working on the solar cell .
Though I understand little about the solar cell or solar panel . It's somewhat disappointing the progress that has been made . Almost 60 years of work , solar panels should be twice as efficient as they are now But , it's also disapointing , they have tunnal vision for the application of solar panels .
All they want to do is . Put them on a roof or dig a hole in the ground . Stick a pipe in the hole and put a solar panel on top of it .
I've got a couple of ideas , that could change the world . Like , how to use solar energy at night .
I just need to change some peoples thinking .
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