James Mishra

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Figure out, a Bell researcher might be told, how “fundamental questions of physics or chemistry might someday affect communications.” Might someday—Bell researchers were encouraged to think decades down the road, to imagine how technology could radically alter the character of everyday life, to wonder how Bell might “connect all of us, and all of our new machines, together.” One Bell employee of a later era summarized it like this: “When I first came there was the philosophy: look, what you’re doing might not be important for ten years or twenty years, but that’s fine, we’ll be there then.”
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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