Review: The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
2025-06-301 min read
The origin story of modern computing. A brilliant collection of brilliant ideas and their parents. This should be core reading of CS courses - well, bar the relish in personal lives. Reading like this always brings the abstract idea of compute into a physical reality that’s hard to grasp in the modern age. The art of information theory is so understated.