Jan 4
2 min read
Your computer is way more powerful than you realize
It’s a common saying to hear things like “ We have more power in our phones than NASA did in the 1960’s to put a man on the moon “ — and it’s right! If anything, it’s a huge understatement.
Rodney Brooks wrote a great article for IEEE Spectrum where he broke it all down, but his main comparison was a modern laptop compared to the IBM 7090, the first all-transistor mainframe…
