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I'm currently halfway through The Idea Factory: Bell Labs & the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner. The stories and characters behind all the inven
by Lyngbakr 3y ago
I'm currently halfway through The Idea Factory: Bell Labs & the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner. The stories and characters behind all the inventions and ideas are absolutely fascinating, as is the culture they cultivated there. Definitely recommended!
- mk_stjames 3y agoI came here to recommend this book as the title of this article mirrors its title's key descriptor. It's one of my favorite books; throughout my time reading it I would periodically put it down and just sit with awe in imagining the science and the work happening there throughout the years depicted. I need to sit down and read it again; but I'm afraid to, as in a way it just gives me this odd sense of mixed unfounded nostalgia and jealousy and a bit of dread for not being a part of something similar anymore.
- diggan 3y ago> and jealousy and a bit of dread for not being a part of something similar anymore. In some corridor, somewhere in the world, the next Bell Labs is currently under way and others will read books about it in the future. You just have to figure out where it is :)
- hnthrowaway0328 3y agoI think the PC storm is definitely gone. Nowadays everything needs a doctor or something. It's a one shot thing in maybe a few centuries.
- 101011 3y agoI heard about this book from hackernews a year or two ago. I'm not a big non-fiction fan, but I absolutely devoured that book. Strong plus one about Gertner's great work here.
- jlarcombe 3y agoyes - really great book