8 Cyberpunk Machines That Changed Computing Forever
3. The Apollo Guidance Computer (1966)
It’s not a myth – the computing power on board the Apollo 11 lunar module was no more powerful than a pocket calculator. But imagine a pocket calculator that weighs 30 kg! That’s what they had to lug into orbit back in 1969.
If you were to make the same trip on the Apollo today, your iPhone has enough computing power to handle 100,000 missions.
1960s technology was still chunky, but the revolutionary microchip and microprocessors were just around the corner. Remember Ada Lovelace? NASA scientists had all the vision, and Star Trek was on the box, but they needed technology to catch up with them.