“Bell Laboratories, which
thrived from the 1920s to the 1980s, was the most innovative and productive
institution of the twentieth century. Long before America's
brightest scientific minds began migrating west to Silicon Valley, they flocked
to this sylvan campus in the New
Jersey suburbs built and funded by AT&T. At its
peak, Bell Labs employed nearly fifteen thousand people, twelve hundred of whom
had PhDs. Thirteen would go on to win Nobel prizes. It was a citadel of science
and scholarship as well as a hotbed of creative thinking. It was, in effect, a
factory of ideas whose workings have remained largely hidden until now. New
York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner unveils the unique magic of Bell Labs
through the eyes and actions of its scientists. These ingenious, often
eccentric men would become revolutionaries, and sometimes legends, whether for
inventing radio astronomy in their spare time (and on the company's dime),
riding unicycles through the corridors, or pioneering the principles that
propel today's technology. In these pages, we learn how radar came to be, and
lasers, transistors, satellites, mobile phones, and much more. Even more
important, Gertner reveals the forces that set off this explosion of
creativity. Bell Labs combined the best aspects of the academic and corporate
worlds, hiring the brightest and usually the youngest minds, creating a culture
and even an architecture that forced employees in different fields to work
together, in virtually complete intellectual freedom, with little pressure to
create moneymaking innovations. In Gertner's portrait, we come to understand
why both researchers and business leaders look to Bell Labs as a model and long
to incorporate its magic into their own work. Written with a novelist's gift
for pacing and an ability to convey the thrill of innovation, The Idea Factory
yields a revelatory take on the business of invention. What are the principles
of innovation? How do new technology and new ideas begin? Are some environments
more favorable than others? How should they be structured, and how should they
be governed? Can strokes of genius be accelerated, replicated, standardized?
The history of Bell Labs provides crucial answers that can and should be
applied today by anyone who wants to understand where good ideas come”
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