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I'm surprised you didn't mention Bell Laboratories at all. They innovated a lot, and created a ton of stuff including Claude Shannon's paper and a lot of the te
by Waterfall 6y ago
I'm surprised you didn't mention Bell Laboratories at all. They innovated a lot, and created a ton of stuff including Claude Shannon's paper and a lot of the technology today we use.
Boeing I would say has a lot to learn from SpaceX.
>If someone has great ideas, we should invest in the person not in their employer.
But what if the employer is investing? This talks about how corporations dismiss good ideas, but large ones like Bell fostered it. Not sure if Apple had some innovators leave, but if they did, I haven't heard of them.
- lazylizard 6y agoOr thermo electron
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoChris Lattner, Tony Fadell, and Scott Forstall probably count as innovators, and they all left Apple. Bell Labs was a classic blue sky internal research outfit. Modern corporate culture can't quite handle the concept, so modern R&D is more constrained and "results driven." There's a critical difference between implementing existing ideas and inventing completely new classes of ideas and devices - like the transistor, or information theory as a discipline. Modern corps do a lot of the former, but not so much of the latter. Far less than Bell Labs used to.
- Waterfall 6y agoWhat have they made since? Forestall makes plays now doesn't he? I don't know the other 2 of the top of my head