David Halberstam, The coldest winter : America and the Korean war, [2007]
written by David Halberstam
p.331
Lucius Battle,
Filled with the confidence of the young, Battle suggested that the orders were far too vague for someone like MacArthur. Acheson simply exploded ── Battle later noted that he had never seen him that angry before ──
p.331
“And are you willing to take on the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff?”
p.331
It had been a rare moment, Battle felt, when the secretary revealed just how much he was a prisoner of events. Years later, Averell Harriman would sum it all up this way: “It would have taken a superhuman effort to say no. Psychologically it was almost impossible to not go ahead and complete the job.”
p.332
“Inchon was,” said Frank Gibney, then a young combat correspondent from Time, “the most expensive victory we ever won because it led to the complete deification of MacArthur and the terrible, terrible defeats that happened next.”
( The coldest winter : America in the Korean war / David Halberstam.──1st ed.; 1. korean war, 1950─1953──united states., DS 919.H35 2007, 951.904'240973──dc22, [2007], )
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── in any company's greatest achievements one might, with the clarity of hindsight, locate the beginnings of its own demise., p.186, p.185, Jon Gernter., The idea factory : the Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation, [2012]
Jon Gernter., The idea factory : the Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation, [2012]
p.186, p.185
Max Matheus
acoustics departments at Bell Labs 1955
department head of acoustic and behavioral research unit.
pp.185─186
In many respects, says Mathews, a phone monopoly in the early part of the 20th century made perfect sense. Analog signals ── the waves that carry phone calls ── are very fragile. “If you're going to send sound a long way, you have to send it through fifty amplifiers,” he explains, just as the transatlantic cable did. “The only thing that would work is if all the amplifiers in the path were designed and controlled by one entity, being the AT&T company. That was a natural monopoly. The whole system ── an analog system ── wouldn't work if it was done by a myriad of companies.”22
But when Shannon explained how all messages could be classified as information, and all information could be digitally coded, it hinted at the end of this necessary monopoly. Digital information as Shannon envisioned it was durable and portable. In time, any company could code and send a message digitally, and any company could uncode it. And with transistors, which were increasingly cheap and essential to digital transmission, the process would get easier by the year. Mathews argued that Shannon's theorem “was the mathematical basis for breaking up the Bell System.” IF that was so, then perhaps Shockley's work would be the technical basis for a breakup.
And depending on how it played out, one might attach a corollary to Kelly's loose formula for innovation ── namely, that in any company's greatest achievements one might, with the clarity of hindsight, locate the beginnings of its own demise.
(The idea factory : the Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation / Jon Gernter.
1. bell telephone laboratories──history──20th century.
2. telecommunication──united states──history──20th century.
3. technological innovations──united states──history──20th century.
4. creative ability──united states──history──20th century.
5. inventors──united states──history──20th century.
TK5102.3.U6G47 2012
384──dc23
384 Gernter
)
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