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"The computer used to guide the Apollo 11 moon mission was less powerful than a modern calculator."

Nick Gillespie | 8.24.2014 11:11 AM

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Seems worth remembering on a semi-regular basis.

Despite legitimate worries about a "Great Stagnation," the pace of technological and social change proceeds pretty amazingly apace.

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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