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The last 50 years went from the amount of computing power used to power Apollo to being available hundredfold in everyone's pocket, it's as impressive in its ow
by kaesar14 6y ago
The last 50 years went from the amount of computing power used to power Apollo to being available hundredfold in everyone's pocket, it's as impressive in its own way
- jahnu 6y agoCloser to a hundred million fold :)
- criddell 6y agoThe technology is impressive. How we're using it often is not.
- kaesar14 6y agoEh, it also often is. Better transportation, better medical devices, better energy grids. Aviation was and is used to drop bombs on other human beings! Nothing is black or white.
- dredmorbius 6y agoApollo went to the moon. My pocket doesn't. Spaceflight is not compute-bound.
- kaesar14 6y agoIt was just an example
- alpaca128 6y agoA bit offtopic but I recently saw a surprisingly interesting talk about the Apollo board computer[0], and it's incredible how carefully they engineered the whole thing. Software hardcoded in the wiring, error correction for every memory access, ability to restart the whole system in any situation without losing state...this thing might have been rudimentary in today's standards, but the quality of the software was a different beast. [0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM https://youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM
- isolli 6y agoTrue, it's not all about computing cycles :)