On Monday, July 7, 2014 10:29:01 AM UTC-4, Robert Heller wrote:   
      
   > It is called 'free enterprise'. Free enterprise cures all   
   > ills.  The American system is superior to all others. The USA is   
   > 15th in the world in terms of Internet connectivity (down from 11th a year or   
   > so ago).   
      
   Yet, in the days of the 'evil Ma Bell monopoly' we had, by far, the best   
   telephone system in the world.  Many of _today's_ technologies were developed   
   by Bell Labs prior to divestiture.   
      
   The following is a great book on the history of Bell Labs, including what we   
   lost by their demise:   
   "The idea factory: the Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation" by    
   Jon Gertner, 2012.   
      
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