Month: January 2020

Corporate industrial labs have been responsible for some of the world’s greatest innovations. None more so than the Bell Telephone Laboratories during the twentieth century. For example, from Bell Labs came the transistor and the laser, among many others. It is fair to say that much of modern communications we owe to that single organization and its scientists and engineers,…

There is an episode of Netflix’s series The Crown in which the British Royals follow the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. They are portrayed as monitoring the events rapturously, united in a kind of collective awe with virtually the entire world. At the moment of the landing, I was at a professional baseball game, which was interrupted by the announcement to…