Bits&Chips talks to Marcel Pelgrom (part 3)

Over the course of twenty-odd years, Marcel Pelgrom has written many an opinion piece for Bits&Chips. On the occasion of his retirement as a columnist, René Raaijmakers sat down with him for an entire afternoon, taking him on a trip down memory lane.

In part 3, Marcel reflects on his prediction that polymer electronics would boom. He turned out to be wrong. He also talks at length about the emerging bureaucracy at Philips’ Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Natlab) in the 1990s and 2000s.

This interview is part of a series of four and can be watched on Youtube and listened to on Apple Podcasts, Buzzsprout and Spotify.