They had:

• A very ambitious vision. To connect two people anywhere in the world.
• Funding and long-term safety because they were a regulated monopoly.
• Extraordinary recruiting and organizational design by early leaders, especially Mervin Kelly setting up a cycle of the best people wanting to work with the best people in a highly vertically ...

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1. A well written story of some of the key players in Bell Labs.
2. A well described evolution of the development of the management techniques.
3. An excellent discussion of some of the major personalities in the R&D world at the time.

• Communication satellites
• Computer networking
• The most common OS in use today (including the one that powers Google): Unix
• Cloud computing, if you believe Bell Lab's on this (their claim is legitimate but it stretches the definition a little far)
• Transatlantic cables
• Fiber optics
• Microwave commu