i have visited Lucent labs in jersey about 2 years ago - (this was once the main campus for Bell labs). Didn't seem to be very much going on. Bell/Lucent had even turned off the spinkler water feature near the reception of the building. Although they do still have this very cool room that is basically completely lit up by clear optical cable - it looks like something out of the movie "the Abyss" - but my guess is its purely for aesthetics. In any case it definitely looked like there was a fraction of the activity going on that once was happening here (empty offices, etc..).
On another note - IBM still does a massive amount of research and a good portion of it might still be considered "blue sky" in the context of this article - but i dont see IBM as a coporation that is very consumer facing - more of a B2B.
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i have visited Lucent labs in jersey about 2 years ago - (this was once the main campus for Bell labs). Didn't seem to be very much going on. Bell/Lucent had even turned off the spinkler water feature near the reception of the building. Although they do still have this very cool room that is basically completely lit up by clear optical cable - it looks like something out of the movie "the Abyss" - but my guess is its purely for aesthetics. In any case it definitely looked like there was a fraction of the activity going on that once was happening here (empty offices, etc..). On another note - IBM still does a massive amount of research and a good portion of it might still be considered "blue sky" in the context of this article - but i dont see IBM as a coporation that is very consumer facing - more of a B2B.