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szundi on May 12, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Bell Labs Worked

Golden age was a time when basic tinkering could bring you to groundbraking discovery. This is of course over now.

IAmBroom on May 12, 2025 [–]

Groundbreaking, not "groundbraking".

And as someone else noted: the golden age is ALWAYS in the past, and often in the not-recent but not-ancient, poorly-remembered past.

We probably exist in some future's golden age.

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