The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World
by James Ashton · 11 May 2023 · 401pp · 113,586 words
is shrinking a room-sized machine to a portable gadget; it is the iPhone, the ‘everything device’ that offers 100,000 times more processing power than the computer that guided Apollo 11 to the first moon landing in 1969. It is collapsing together numerous appliances – the phone, camera, calculator and games console – because it
Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane
by Brett King · 5 May 2016 · 385pp · 111,113 words
is more powerful than all of the computers that NASA had in the 1970s during the Apollo project, and almost 3 million times more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins used to navigate their way to the lunar surface. The most powerful supercomputer in 1993, built
Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go but Something You Do
by Brett King · 26 Dec 2012 · 382pp · 120,064 words
launched in 1981 it was already about eight times faster than the Apollo computer. The current iPhone 4S is roughly two million times more powerful than the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer that landed men on the moon. In fact, the first iPhone model (the 2G as it is now known) had more computing power
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
beams for miles, sometimes with wings.49 The first prototype, the size of a matchbox, contained temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity sensors and more computing power than the Apollo moon lander. “There’s nothing in this thing that we can’t shrink down and put into a cubic millimeter of volume,” said UC professor
Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations
by Nandan Nilekani · 4 Feb 2016 · 332pp · 100,601 words
computing speed would double every eighteen months—a vision of exponential growth that has largely been realized. The average smartphone today is more powerful than the computers that put the Apollo astronauts on the moon. Five years from today, they will be more powerful than the supercomputers of the last decade. Over the last
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
by Aaron Bastani · 10 Jun 2019 · 280pp · 74,559 words
plummeted too, falling to a tiny fraction of a cent. So while you’ll often hear clichés of how modern smartphones are more powerful than the computers used for NASA’s Apollo missions, even that fails to convey how dramatically transistors have transformed over the last few decades. A more useful comparison can be
As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Work, Health & Wealth
by Juan Enriquez · 15 Feb 2001 · 239pp · 45,926 words
manufacturing processes like building automobiles … Transport and insurance costs exceed those of steel … Or of manual labor.5 (A Ford Taurus has more than 120 computer chips … more computing power than the Apollo lunar excursion modules.) The same is true even in agriculture … Look at something as basic as flower production. Imagine they asked you to
That Used to Be Us
by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum · 1 Sep 2011 · 441pp · 136,954 words
-quality vocational training. Learning to repair the engine of an electric car, or a robotic cutting tool, or a new gas-powered vehicle that has more computing power in it than the Apollo space capsule—these are not skills you can pick up in a semester of high school shop class. It is vital that
The Connected Company
by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal · 2 Dec 2014 · 372pp · 89,876 words
comfortably from one place to another. The ratio of knowledge to matter in any product increasingly favors knowledge. A modern car contains more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon. Consider the difference between a TV and a TiVo. The knowledge and services embedded in a product are what
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research paper prepared for American Express by Echo, http://about.americanexpress.com/news/docs/2011x/AXP_2011_csbar_market.pdf. COMPUTING POWER “Your Car Has More Computing Power than the System that Guided Apollo Astronauts to the Moon,” Institute of Physics, http://physics.org/facts/apollo.asp. KINDLE “Bezos: Kindle Fire is an End-to
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
date) would have cost $100 trillion, roughly twenty-five times the United States federal budget for 2015.44 The average smartphone has more processing power than the Apollo Guidance Computer that sent Neil Armstrong to the moon.45 Our brains are not wired to think exponentially. We tend to think of change as happening
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
by Ed Conway · 15 Jun 2023 · 515pp · 152,128 words
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
by Colin Ellard · 14 May 2015 · 313pp · 92,053 words
An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000
by John Steele Gordon · 12 Oct 2009 · 519pp · 148,131 words