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What Would It Take To Recreate Bell Labs? (hackaday.com)
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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

the main innovations they got were touchtone phones replacing rotary ones and higher bills.

That's incredibly incorrect.

Bell labs invented or laid the groundwork for, among other things:

  • Movies with synchronous sound
  • Text-to-speech
  • Stereo broadcasts
  • Radio astronomy
  • The transistor
  • Unix
  • The C programming language
  • The calculator
  • Solar electricity
  • Transatlantic telephone cables
  • LASER
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (this was part of the framework for cell phones. In the 1960s)

Take your anti-research propaganda out of here. Government backed scientists who don't have shareholders holding them accountable are crucial to progress. Capitalism is toxic to scientific progress. Great for improving around existing concepts, terrible for making new ones.