The power in your pocket:
On July 20, 1969, humans landed on the #moon. Key to that feat was a computer module designed by the @MIT Instrumentation Laboratory called the Apollo Guidance Computer For all mankind.
Not particularly powerful by todays standards having 64Kbyte of memory & operating at 0.043MHz but boy did it deliver on a complex task greater than the sum of its electronic parts, providing computation + electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation & control of the spacecraft
Even then, there were teams of technicians and engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center using 5 @IBM System/360 Model 75s #mainframe computer to run parallel comparative calculations to ensure everything went right ... no room for error IBM System/360 Model 75 were the size of a small room
The #smartphone in your pocket holds billions of transistors, can process millions of calculations per second, and packs more of everything by several factors than the computers @NASA used to put man on the moon #MwelekeoNiInternet
Now extend that power through #internet connectivity, where you can access more storage, more computing power and artificial intelligence at scale through platforms such as @awscloud @googlecloud and building @Android @AppStore #apps #MwelekeoNiInternet #TwendeTukiuke
If we put man on the moon with much less compute, and processing power ... what will you build ... what can you do with your #smartphone and connectivity? #MwelekeoNiInternet #TwendeTukiuke

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