The Lab That Invented The 21st Century

Go to http://piavpn.com/torscabinet to get 83% off from our sponsor Private Internet Access with 4 months free! Featuring technology invented by Bell Labs, like almost everything else you use over the course of an average day. In fact, these days it's rare to not be actively using something invented by Bell Labs. What else should Bell Labs have worked on? Patenting all 99 Names of God -   / membership   Curing neurotypicality - https://x.com/parsons_tor The fart gun from the first Despicable Me -   / mrsluds   Making catgirls real -   / tor.in.oregon   Sources & Further Info Books: Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age by Jeremy Bernstein, © 1984 Scribner's, ISBN 9780684181707 The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by John Gertner, © 2012 Penguin, ISBN 9781594203282 A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable by John Steele Gordon, © 2002 Bloomsbury, ISBN 9780802713643 An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals, and Noise by John R. Pierce, © 1979 Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486240619 Studies & Websites: How radar won the war: https://gizmodo.com/how-bell-labs-rad... Simultaneous invention: Charles Süsskind, Radar as a Case Study in Simultaneous Invention; in Tracking the History of Radar, Blumtritt et al, ed, IEEE-Rutgers, 1994 Antitrust: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-an... The Carterfone case and its connection to net neutrality (remember the debate over net neutrality?): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2... And none of these were sources, but are relevant to stuff I talked about in the episode & complement it well: On fiber optics, a great work of science fact by one of the greatest living sci-fi authors: https://efdn.notion.site/Mother-Earth... Could analog computers be the future? (more on those "non-binary AI chips"):    • Future Computers Will Be Radically Differe...   Masterful 8-bit Sgt. Pepper, yes, the full album:    • The 8-Bit Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely H...   Pilot wave theory of quantum mechanics (remember, all models are wrong, some are useful. this is one of the useful ones):    • David Bohm's Pilot Wave Interpretation of ...   Ask my co-writer for this episode, Jim Hickstein (he's on the TCOC Discord; in fact, he's more active there than I am) if you want more sources. I was so relieved to be done editing this longthy episode (this episode sure has got some LONGTH), I forgot to include the "if you're still watching..." text at the end. So if you watched all the way to the end, comment "Those poor Ronettes". Also THERE IS A TOR'S CABINET MERCH STORE NOW, to be officially announced in the next episode. Get hype. 0:00 Intro 5:15 Ad 7:14 Part 1: Mission 10:42 Black 13:46 Radio Astronomy 14:21 Radar 20:02 Transistor 29:13 Shannon 32:42 Digital and Analog 36:12 Nyquist/Shannon 41:40 TAT-1 46:37 Lasers and Fiber 52:15 Part 2: Money 57:51 Monopoly 1:02:08 Part 3: Now 1:03:13 Next? 1:08:54 It's back!