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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 …”
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.”
Benet: Breaking up the AT&T monopoly killed Bell Labs
“Breaking Bell apart effectively stifled and killed Bell Labs.”
Kuo: E.A.T. was founded in 1966 by Rauschenberg and Klüver
“Experiments in Art and Technology was a group that was founded in 1966 by the artist Robert Rauschenberg, by an engineer named Billy Kluver, who was a research scientist at Bell Labs.”
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…”