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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_Holm
by 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 agoTo 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 agoOf course! That's why I posted it! This was the most prestigious laboratory in the world.
- acdha 6y agoNot 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.