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I'm curious. Were there many newspaper and magazine articles about life at IBM, GE, and other large corporations in the the 1950-1980 time frame? Did this trend of corporate culture commentary arise with periodicals like Byte, Dr. Dobb's, and Wired Magazine? Before?

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Whole books even:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

Oh, great point. That's a fantastic book.

Available to read for free on Open Library :) https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98218W/The_soul_of_a_new_mac...

I don't remember any corporate culture stuff in hardcore tech magazines like Byte or Dr. Dobb's. Wired came later and it seems like it had corporate culture articles.

People talked about corporate culture at IBM all the time, it was just in hushed tones.

True, you heard about corporate culture at IBM, I just don't recall reading articles about it in Byte or Dr. Dobb's.

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