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betcha if there were prediction thread for another decade, people will post how Google will be turned into former bell labs and eventually seize to exist.
by thrwaway69 7y ago
betcha if there were prediction thread for another decade, people will post how Google will be turned into former bell labs and eventually seize to exist.
- wyre 7y agoI can see that happening in the second half of this decade as Google continues to grow and absorb more and more of the Internet.
- bobbiechen 7y agoGuessing you meant cease to exist here, but also seizing the intellectual property of Bell Labs seemed to work out in the 1956 consent decree: The Bell System was obligated to license all its patents royalty free, and it was barred from entering any industry other than telecommunications. ... Although the 1956 consent decree was not effective in ending market foreclosure, it permanently increased the scale of US innovation. https://voxeu.org/article/how-antitrust-enforcement-can-spur-innovation https://voxeu.org/article/how-antitrust-enforcement-can-spur...