Brian Kernighan's book, "Unix: A History and a Memoir" paints a compelling picture of just how open-ended research at Bell Labs can be. FAANG do a lot of resea

Brian Kernighan's book, "Unix: A History and a Memoir" paints a compelling picture of just how open-ended research at Bell Labs can be. FAANG do a lot of research, but the budgeting for those efforts is much more tightly controlled and connected to corporate strategy.