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I remember reading about this and his work at Bell in The Idea Factory http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factory http://www.goodreads.com/bo

by imrehg 12y ago

I remember reading about this and his work at Bell in The Idea Factory http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factory http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factory It's awesome and strange in the same time. He was basically fooling around "instead of work", creating such amazing things, while all the more people fooling around "instead of work" I see these days are at max creating high scores for Candy Crush... Lot to learn. :)

zenbowman 12y ago
The Idea Factory is a great book, it totally shatters the myths so often propagated today. It demonstrates without doubt that innovation can happen at a very large scale in very large, monopolistic, noncompetitive organizations. In fact, there's reason to believe that innovation might require a very large organization, because small companies don't have the funds needed to do research, and are likely to be unable to capture the market even if their research does bear fruit.
- gioele 12y ago
  > innovation might require a very large organization, Like, you know, nations?