Claude Shannon at Bell Labs
Interesting links off the OA to the generation <i>after</i> Shannon who implemented a lot of the ideas.<p><i>&gt;&gt; Reflecting on this time later, he remembered the flashes of intuition. The work wasn’t linear; ideas came when they came. “One night I remember I woke up in the middle of the night and I had an idea and I stayed up all night working on that.” &lt;&lt;</i><p>Do people think that putting Shannon somewhere like the Institute for Advanced Study would actually have quickened up his thinking? Or is a level of distracting background activity actually helpful?