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Genius, Innovation, and Jealousy: The Story of Bell Labs

2025/7/2
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Stephen: 我认为贝尔实验室是20世纪乃至人类历史上最庞大、最集中的智慧、能力、人才和知识的集合地。它对现代科技的发展做出了巨大贡献，我们今天使用的许多技术都源于贝尔实验室的研究成果。贝尔实验室的创新精神和团队合作文化是其成功的关键。我发现贝尔实验室的成功不仅在于其拥有的顶尖人才，更在于其营造的自由、开放的科研环境。这种环境鼓励科学家们进行创新，并促进了不同领域之间的合作。贝尔实验室的案例表明，一个良好的科研环境对于科技创新至关重要。

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For most of the 20th century, Bell Labs was the beating heart of American innovation. Founded in 1925 as the research arm of AT&T and Western Electric, it was the world’s preeminent industrial research laboratory. If you used a phone, accessed the internet, or wrote code, you were benefiting from Bell Labs' innovations—even if you didn’t realize it.

Bell Labs wasn’t just another corporate R&D division; it was a nation-state-level research operation embedded within the private sector. It didn’t just respond to markets—it created them.

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