The Surprising Power of Modern Technology

Your smartphone has more computing power than all of NASA used to put humans on the moon

in 1969. The Apollo 11 guidance computer had 64 kilobytes of memory and operated at

0.043 megahertz. Your phone? Millions of times more powerful, sitting in your

pocket while you scroll through cat videos. But here's what blows my mind even

more. That same phone uses less energy than a single old school incandescent

light bulb. Meanwhile, your refrigerator running 24/7 consumes what your TV uses

in just seven hours of binge watching. We carry supercomputers everywhere but waste more electricity

keeping leftovers cold than entertaining ourselves for days. The real kicker? A calculator from