Peter Diamandis: your phone vastly outpowers the 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-09-03
X Prize founder Peter Diamandis notes that the phone in your pocket has vastly more raw computing power, memory, and storage than the Apollo Guidance Computer that landed humans on the Moon in 1969.
A shareable reminder of exponential growth in computing, though no new data.
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