BELL LABS kills fundamental physics research. Jerry Pournelle comments “Thank you, Judge Green. May you reap what you sowed.” Judge Harold Greene has already gone to his reward, and I’m not so sure the AT&T breakup was a bad thing overall, but the loss of Bell Labs as a fundamental research facility has been a major blow.

UPDATE: Reader Robert Johnson emails: “Judge Greene destroyed a critical piece of the infrastructure that once made this country the unchallenged leader in telecommunications knowledge. So we could have cheap long distance calls. I hope you really like having cheap long distance calls, because there isn’t anybody left to invent new stuff.”