20 years?
I rather doubt that.
10 tops before they meet in the middle.
20 years? our positions will be reversed, with both trajectories set to widen the gap.
Unless we stop our own slide.
Posted on 01/19/2014 2:46:33 AM PST by grimalkin
20 years?
I rather doubt that.
10 tops before they meet in the middle.
20 years? our positions will be reversed, with both trajectories set to widen the gap.
Unless we stop our own slide.
Bell Labs was just a relatively small R&D outfit shared by AT&T and their subsidiary Western Electric. And yes, they did innovate things. The problem was that AT&T was neither willing nor able to convert this into national scale communications at the consumer level.
Their management was calcified, and as a monopoly, had no incentive to change, which would mean that Western Electric would have to retool and repurpose.
A good comparison was Ford under Henry Ford. After making the very successful Model T, the public wanted a heck of a lot more, but the most he was willing to give them was the Model A. He was so rigid he wouldn’t even allow a different body color than black.
And yes, some people were convinced that things were better when the only alternative was the Model T.
So you’ve been strip searched and sexually assaulted by gov. agents? Been illegally arrested by gov. agents? Has anyone/gov. agent ever told you to be silent or they’d arrest you? Sure, the Dems would like to create a totalitarian state, but it’s not nearly like that yet. You’re still free. Freer than most humans. Because the gov. does a number of unconstitutional things does not mean you’re living in a prison.
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