Summary
Highlights achievements of Bell Labs as a leading innovator, exploring the role of its highly educated employees in developing new technologies while considering the qualities of companies where innovation and development are most successful. Full description
- Introduction: Wicked problems
- Oil drops
- West to East
- System
- War
- Solid state
- House of magic
- The informationist
- Man and machines
- Formula
- Silicon
- Empire
- An instigator
- On Crawford Hill
- Futures, real and imagined
- Mistakes
- Competition
- Apart
- Afterlives
- Inheritance
- Echoes.