Wasn’t Bell Labs innovating before that? Presumably with a smaller budget and smaller head count? Maybe still bigger than Media Lab. But if Bell Labs did some o

Wasn’t Bell Labs innovating before that? Presumably with a smaller budget and smaller head count? Maybe still bigger than Media Lab. But if Bell Labs did some of their impressive stuff at say 5x budget and head count of Media Lab (using only inflation to do budget differences also prob will lead to an uneven comparison that isn’t fair. Not sure which way it would swing though). Then Bell Labs id think would still take the cake. EDIT: Bell Labs started out with 4K employees so it was always an order of magnitude bigger. Maybe Media Lab is the biggest innovator for its size. I don’t know if that means much though if it is. Bell Labs gets brought up probably because their influence and what they’ve done far far exceeds the budget and head count advantage.