<div dir="ltr">our grandchildren will be able to tell us.... :-)<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Noel Chiappa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So I was sitting here, not really up to working, and idly watching The History<br>
Channel, and there was a documentary about Apollo 11 on. They had a number of<br>
people (including Walter Cronkite) talking about what they thought it meant,<br>
retrospectively.<br>
<br>
Several said something about how it was the greatest accomplishment of the<br>
century, etc (it certainly was an amazing accomplishment - looking back on it,<br>
it's completely amazing that they managed to do it with 1960s technology -<br>
although winning WWII was an even greater effort, I'm quite sure), and one<br>
said that when people look back at the 20th Century, centuries from now,<br>
that's the thing they are likely to think was the most significant event of<br>
the century.<br>
<br>
It suddenly struck me that something else happened in 1969 - that was the year<br>
the ARPANET was turned on. Given that the ARPANET gave birth to the Internet,<br>
and the impact the computer networking has had on the world (admittedly, in<br>
tandem with the development of the personal computer), I wonder if in the long<br>
run, landing on the Moon will really be seen as more significant than that?<br>
<br>
Odd how two such major things, long-term-historically speaking, happened in<br>
the same year!<br>
<br>
Noel<br>
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