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I'd love to see a movie about the "managers" Mervin Kelly and/or William Shockley. Less military oriented perhaps, but seems that period of Bell Labs just was something else for some reason, in terms of impact on the world.


Shockley? The guy whose employees hated him so much they went and founded a rival company which then gave rise to Silicon Valley?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight


The more interesting the movie could be!


Shockley might have been a better researcher/engineer than manager, still I'm sure a movie about his early days, including the alienation of some of the people he recruited later, would be an interesting watch :)


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