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Thu Apr 29 07:03:27 1982
Monopoly
There are in this country two very
large monopolies. The larger of the
two has the following record: The
Vietnam War, Watergate, double-
digit inflation, fuel and energy
shortages, bankrupt airlines and
the 20-cent letter. The second is
responsible for such things as the
transistor, the solar cell, lasers,
synthetic crystals, high fidelity
stereo recording, sound motion
pictures, radio astronomy, negative
feedback, magnetic tape, magnetic
"bubbles", electronic swithching
systems, microwave radio and TV
relay systems, information theory,
the first electrical digital computer,
and the first communications
satellite. Guess which one is now
going to tell the other how to run
the telephone business? I can
hardly wait for the results.
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