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In reply to @saranormous · Mar 22, 2025is there a book / essay about environments that best support scientific discovery? Not about specifically bell labs, cavendish, xerox parc, los alamos - but why these places were so productive?
@saranormous First, "From Counterculture To Cyberculture" and "What The Dormouse Said" helped me connect some of the hidden dots.
Then I bought an actual 1968 Whole Earth Catalogue on eBay and, not exaggerating, everything make sense. Xerox. Apple. General Magic.
