> What made places like Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, etc thrive? What happened to that mechanism, and can we have it back? They were all playing around

> What made places like Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, etc thrive? What happened to that mechanism, and can we have it back? They were all playing around in a new field that had just opened up. Research effectiveness is downstream of what's available to be found in the idea mines.