Your Phone vs. Apollo Computer

Your phone is more powerful than the computer that sent humans to the Moon. NASA's Apollo computer

had just 64 kilobytes of memory. Your smartphone has millions of times more power.

That tiny computer guided astronauts 384,000 kilometers to the Moon with no internet,

no touch screen, and no updates. And here's the crazy part. Today we use that

power to scroll Instagram. Technology has evolved insanely fast. The Apollo Guidance

Computer was a revolutionary piece of hardware in 1969, but now it would struggle to run

a digital alarm clock. Meanwhile, you're holding a supercomputer in

your pocket that could run thousands of Apollo missions simultaneously. Yet most of us barely