a great view inside of bell labs in its heyday is the book "three degrees above zero". http://books.google.com/books/about/Three_Degrees_Above_Zero.html?id=qM_

a great view inside of bell labs in its heyday is the book "three degrees above zero". http://books.google.com/books/about/Three_Degrees_Above_Zero.html?id=qM_eAAAACAAJ http://books.google.com/books/about/Three_Degrees_Above_Zero... it sounds like the kind of place i would have liked to have worked. not sure if any place with that magic (or PARC's magic) still exist in the corporate world.