Forty Years Later

Today is the 40th anniversary of mankind’s first step onto another world. A tremendous achievement both for the family of man and for real science and engineering (compared to the junk science that seems prevalent in Idiot America today). Two differences between now and then to consider:

• The population of the planet today is double what is was in 1969.

• If Moore’s law is true, than computers today have 134 billion times more processing power than the Apollo Guidance Computer.

Forty years from now, what will we tell the next generation about what we did today with the information and resources we had?