/sci/ - Science & Math

Use to be AWESOME. Now it's just eh.

I worked there temporarily, just wanted to know what the modern opinion was..

>In April 2006, Bell Laboratories's parent company, Lucent Technologies, signed a merger agreement with Alcatel. On December 1, 2006, the merged company, Alcatel-Lucent, began operations.
>As of July 2008, however, only four scientists remained in physics basic research according to a report by the scientific journal Nature.
>On August 28, 2008, Alcatel-Lucent announced it was pulling out of basic science, material physics, and semiconductor research, and it will instead focus on more immediately marketable areas including networking, high-speed electronics, wireless networks, nanotechnology and software.

Wow, sad.

>>3836034

>>3836045
yfw you won't keep a pet alligator in your cube, thereby meeting all the bigwigs in the lab, then go on to invent Unix, co-design C, create the world computer chess champion, help with Plan 9, and retire to fly Mig-20s, only to be rehired by Google and create yet another language (Go).

>>3836034
The market has spoken. I knew humans were destined for mediocrity since Earth's economy revolves around pleasing the top 1% be it smart mobile devices or slutty escorts.

can i has a job?

window cleaner?

>>3836034
> Wow, sad.

It's the end game of the prevailing economic model in a falling empire. It's not sad; it's inevitable.

>>3838230
wait google is making a new language?

Well at least there are still the national labs that aren't completely beholden to business interests.