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Bell Labs Holmdel Is Now Mainly a Food Court

26 points by aj7 6y ago

person_of_color 6y ago
Doesn’t surprise me when you could double your salary simply moving to the west coast.
cbradford 6y ago
The phrases "innovation", "tech hub" and "New Jersey"... I don't think so
- coliveira 6y ago
  New Jersey still is a tech hub, but for pharmaceutical technology.
  - fennecfoxen 6y ago
    Can confirm, worked with a silly-expensive consultancy for a company with a little process-deviation-reporting-workflow-management tool (with BPMN workflow modeling, because they needed to make my life interesting); it was in New Jersey because allllll their customers were in the area.
- david_dan 6y ago
  Huh? The Transistor, Unix, Speech Recognition was all invented in NJ
- yowlingcat 6y ago
  Don't let how easy it is to make fun of New Jersey distract you from how it's an enormous hub for lucrative pharma dollars.
- Sebguer 6y ago
  What places do you consider to be tech hubs?
- riffic 6y ago
  Do you not realize what the significance of Bell Labs is? edit: This site is an Eero Saarinen design as well, TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex
  - saalweachter 6y ago
    To a certain extent, both Silicon Valley and Hollywood owe their existence to being inconveniently far from New Jersey, a different circuit court, and thus more easily able to ignore the patents of the tech giants in New Jersey.
  - aj7 6y ago
    Of course! That's why I posted it! This was the most prestigious laboratory in the world.
  - acdha 6y ago
    Not to mention why Raritan Township, NJ was renamed to Edison. I’m not sure sure you could make the case that anything Silicon Valley has produced has had more impact on daily life than what came out of Menlo Park a century ago.
- ardy42 6y ago
  > The phrases "innovation", "tech hub" and "New Jersey"... I don't think so Don't be so parochial. Who knows what the places you consider to be "tech hubs" now will be in 50 years. I recently learned that Minnesota of all places used to be a "tech hub" during the mainframe era.
  - HarryHirsch 6y ago
    And Norwich, NY was once place to a thriving, innovative pharmaceutical company.
localcdn 6y ago
They call themselves a "metroburb", a related article on it: https://newcities.org/the-big-picture-increasing-allure-metroburb/ https://newcities.org/the-big-picture-increasing-allure-metr...
walrus01 6y ago
It's not mainly a food court, it's owned by a fairly typical commercial real estate investment group, and is divided into rentable office space. https://bell.works/new-jersey/work/ https://bell.works/new-jersey/work/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex aerial view: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jp...
- aj7 6y ago
  You're reading the ads. I said mostly.
ggm 6y ago
A Xerox Parc alumni told me the physical structure had massive influence on the dynamics of social interaction. it is not impossible Bell Labs, and MIT's Building 29 are examples of this too. I've never been to any of them. I know the common room of many university CS departments is where you get the low-down on whats really going on. Coffee helps.
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26 points by aj7 6y ago

person_of_color 6y ago

Doesn’t surprise me when you could double your salary simply moving to the west coast.

cbradford 6y ago

The phrases "innovation", "tech hub" and "New Jersey"... I don't think so

coliveira 6y ago
New Jersey still is a tech hub, but for pharmaceutical technology.
- fennecfoxen 6y ago
  Can confirm, worked with a silly-expensive consultancy for a company with a little process-deviation-reporting-workflow-management tool (with BPMN workflow modeling, because they needed to make my life interesting); it was in New Jersey because allllll their customers were in the area.
david_dan 6y ago
Huh? The Transistor, Unix, Speech Recognition was all invented in NJ
yowlingcat 6y ago
Don't let how easy it is to make fun of New Jersey distract you from how it's an enormous hub for lucrative pharma dollars.
Sebguer 6y ago
What places do you consider to be tech hubs?
riffic 6y ago
Do you not realize what the significance of Bell Labs is? edit: This site is an Eero Saarinen design as well, TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex
- saalweachter 6y ago
  To a certain extent, both Silicon Valley and Hollywood owe their existence to being inconveniently far from New Jersey, a different circuit court, and thus more easily able to ignore the patents of the tech giants in New Jersey.
- aj7 6y ago
  Of course! That's why I posted it! This was the most prestigious laboratory in the world.
- acdha 6y ago
  Not to mention why Raritan Township, NJ was renamed to Edison. I’m not sure sure you could make the case that anything Silicon Valley has produced has had more impact on daily life than what came out of Menlo Park a century ago.
ardy42 6y ago
> The phrases "innovation", "tech hub" and "New Jersey"... I don't think so Don't be so parochial. Who knows what the places you consider to be "tech hubs" now will be in 50 years. I recently learned that Minnesota of all places used to be a "tech hub" during the mainframe era.
- HarryHirsch 6y ago
  And Norwich, NY was once place to a thriving, innovative pharmaceutical company.

localcdn 6y ago

They call themselves a "metroburb", a related article on it: https://newcities.org/the-big-picture-increasing-allure-metroburb/ https://newcities.org/the-big-picture-increasing-allure-metr...

walrus01 6y ago

It's not mainly a food court, it's owned by a fairly typical commercial real estate investment group, and is divided into rentable office space. https://bell.works/new-jersey/work/ https://bell.works/new-jersey/work/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex aerial view: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jp...

aj7 6y ago
You're reading the ads. I said mostly.

ggm 6y ago

A Xerox Parc alumni told me the physical structure had massive influence on the dynamics of social interaction. it is not impossible Bell Labs, and MIT's Building 29 are examples of this too. I've never been to any of them. I know the common room of many university CS departments is where you get the low-down on whats really going on. Coffee helps.

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