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Article #125Monopolies
From: alicewolit
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1981 15:01
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1981 15:01
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The following is reputed to come from a recent letter to the editor of the National Observer: There are in the 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 18-cent postcard. 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 switching 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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