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What Would It Take To Recreate Bell Labs? (hackaday.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by 0x0@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jtl@lemmy.world 70 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Missing context here is that Bell labs was at its most productive when it was a government backed monopoly, with the govt insisting that it work in the general public benefit. It’s not possible now because that sort of public-private symbiosis has totally fallen out of favour and regulators just don’t really have the teeth to grab the bull by the horns like that anymore.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 4 weeks ago

Or to put that another way, it would take putting the teeth back in regulation (among other things).