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"Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age"
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Wow, OK. Agree about MS. There was also Crystal Fire about the birth of the transistor which told much the same story (although I can't imagine William Shockley would have been impressed). I'm sure you are right in that AT&T didn't want new things like touch phones, let alone cell phones. But I haven't seen much evidence that basic research is done by industry any more. Also, IBM did the same thing and wasn't broken up by government action but by competition. Also, there are only so many phone lines. Which makes the same argument that net neutrality needs to be a thing.