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- How many computers do you own?
This is an offshoot of the Boeing MCAS thread where we were discussing flight control computer sophistication. To ironically quote Apollo 13; today we have "computers that can fit into a single room and hold millions* of pieces of information..." That was about 1968. But *today* we consider processing power to be an utter triviality.
So trivial that I bet most people would have some difficulty counting all the computers they own. So let's try it (limit it to things that could likely run an Apollo spacecraft )...
2 laptops, 1 Surface and 2 desktops. Those are the obvious ones.
One smart phone (and one I don't use).
4 smart TVs or Blu-ray players. One chromecast.
Two routers and an access point.
Two printers.
My car
Smart watch
Does my Harmony remote count? I don't know. Maybe
My treadmill has a USB port, so...probably?
2 cameras.
Bose headphones I would assume.
My energy monitor? Maybe?
So my count is on the order of 25. I'm probably missing some. Need to think about it some more...
*I'm not sure that was even true; it was probably dozens or hundreds.
So trivial that I bet most people would have some difficulty counting all the computers they own. So let's try it (limit it to things that could likely run an Apollo spacecraft )...
2 laptops, 1 Surface and 2 desktops. Those are the obvious ones.
One smart phone (and one I don't use).
4 smart TVs or Blu-ray players. One chromecast.
Two routers and an access point.
Two printers.
My car
Smart watch
Does my Harmony remote count? I don't know. Maybe
My treadmill has a USB port, so...probably?
2 cameras.
Bose headphones I would assume.
My energy monitor? Maybe?
So my count is on the order of 25. I'm probably missing some. Need to think about it some more...
*I'm not sure that was even true; it was probably dozens or hundreds.