Young Turks (Bell Labs)

The Young Turks were a group of leading scientists who worked at Bell Labs, who were insatiably curious about the science behind communications. Many of them were encouraged to take risks, free from the responsibilities of applying for grants or from teaching.[1][2] "We were first-class troublemakers," Richard Hamming later recalled. "We did unconventional things in unconventional ways and still got valuable results. Thus management had to tolerate us and let us alone a lot of the time."[3]

Members
gollark: Prediction markets are basically just a way to estimate probabilities of future events by having people do betting.
gollark: One obvious slightly insane one I came up with now is governance by internal prediction market. But you'd probably need a big company in the first place to make it work.
gollark: I believe at least one company tried to run internal markets but had horrible problems.
gollark: But presumably there are a lot more conceivable possibilities than that.
gollark: I mean, most actual companies just run on some kind of internal hierarchy or very occasionally this kind of cooperative.

References
  1. "Building New Homes for Energy Innovation - Plugged In - Scientific American Blog Network". Blogs.scientificamerican.com. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  2. "Jon Gertner's 'The Idea Factory' - The Deal Economy (SAMPLE CONTENT: NEED AN ID?)". Thedeal.com. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  3. "Computer Pioneers – Richard Wesley Hamming". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
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