How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years

How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years: "This is the essential weakness of a centralized approach to innovation: the notion that it can be a planned and systematic process, best directed by a kind of central intelligence; that it is simply of matter of assembling all the best minds and putting them to work in unison. Were it so, the future could be planned and executed in a scientific manner."