One Google query = one Apollo program's worth of computing

[This is important. People think the singularity sounds ridiculous, but it's because humans have very poor intuition about exponential growth. What's the world going to be like when every telephone is as powerful as today's supercomputers? -egg]
One Google query = one Apollo program's worth of computing:
Here's a thought:

"It takes about the same amount of computing to answer one Google Search query as all the computing done — in flight and on the ground — for the entire Apollo program."

(Quote from Seb Schmoller’s "Learning technology – a backward and forward look," attributed to Peter Norvig and Udi Mepher of Google on hearing of the death of Neil Armstrong)

I remember hearing that the processor in a singing greeting card had more capacity than all the electronic computers on Earth at the time of Sputnik's launch, though I can't find a cite for it at the moment. Exponential processor improvements are pretty wild.


Learning technology – a backward and forward look
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