From: heller@deepsoft.com   
      
   At Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:03:28 -0700 (PDT) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   And most of this was due to a very different flavor of corporate culture back   
   then, compared to now.  There are a number of reason why corporate culture   
   changed in the last 50-60 years.  Part of it was that American culture itself   
   has changed (eg went from a we/us/our to a I/me/mine culture, etc.).   
      
   >   
   > 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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