And, in a rare moment of sort of personal self-reflection or self-reference, he notes somewhat drolly that the novelty of his ideas will make it difficult for them to find an audience.
It has over-invested in ideas such as the FlexPod reference architecture, which ultimately is not an integrated solution (such as those offered by Dell, EMC, HP, IBM and Oracle).
Some years later, Claude Shannon (also of Bell Labs) would consolidate many of the prevailing ideas on the subject in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" which would reference the work of Nyquist significantly.