Bell Labs
5 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 1, 2017 by Juan Benet · said 28 times in 4 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Jul 1, 2017 negative
Jul 1, 2017 positive
Benet: Distributed labs with long-term funding will replace Bell Labs model
“I think this is, you probably won't see the creation of a Bell Labs like the one before. It's possible that someone like Google and so on creates it, but I think what we'll have instead is, is a much more distributed version of it, where you will have smaller …”
Jul 1, 2017 neutral
Benet: Google Brain and X focus on shorter horizons than Bell Labs
“Google Brain and Axe are much more focused on, on shorter term Valuable things than Bell Labs was. I think both Brain and X can't yet afford to innovate on the multi-decade time scale. They're innovating in like single decade time scales on their own.”
Oct 20, 2017
Oct 20, 2017
Kuo: E.A.T.'s first Armory project paired over 40 artists and engineers
“It involved over 40 engineers and artists, and it was this performance series that took place in New York in at the Armory, which was a huge cavernous space, and basically to get, to make the performance, what became the performance pieces, they paired artists…”