What Does a Nobel Prize for Radio Astronomy Have to Do with Your Telephone? It’s Been a Decade Since the Break-up of AT&T. Has the Spirit Passed Out of its Bell Labs, as Some Charge? Or is it Still the Preeminent Technology Lab in the U.S.? | Imagining the Internet

The prediction, in brief:

Never has there been an opportunity for technology to have such an impact around the world. If innovation is being able to get invention to the marketplace, then the golden age is still ahead of us.

Predictor: Stanzione, Daniel

Prediction, in context:

In a 1995 article for Wired magazine, Richard Rapaport goes to visit AT&T’s Bell Labs research scientists and administrators, interviewing Daniel Stanzione, the eighth president of Bell Labs. Wired quotes Stanzione saying:”Never has there been an opportunity for technology to have such an impact around the world. If innovation is being able to get invention to the marketplace, then the golden age is still ahead of us.”

Date of prediction: January 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks

Subtopic: General

Name of publication: Wired

Title, headline, chapter name: What Does a Nobel Prize for Radio Astronomy Have to Do with Your Telephone? It’s Been a Decade Since the Break-up of AT&T. Has the Spirit Passed Out of its Bell Labs, as Some Charge? Or is it Still the Preeminent Technology Lab in the U.S.?

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.04/bell.labs_pr.html

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney