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It’s the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. First, hard to believe it’s been that long. They’re twittering the mission as if Twitter existed then, when to my knowledge Twitter wasn’t even an idea in anyone’s science fiction. The computer revolution and it’s social context was just not something that was foreseen by anyone. To my knowledge, since I cannot possibly have read every essay, every SF story, every whatever of the last 40 years, I will add the caution of "To my knowledge".

But let me add that the computer you’re using, Twitter, Blogging, all of it is partly in existence because we went to the moon. the technology created to get our people safely there and back was the beginning of all this. So the next time someone asks, "Was it worth it going to the moon?" Ask them how they’d like to be without their internet.

I’ll leave you one of my favorite presidential quotes, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard . .  ." All that will power of a country, all that money, all that time, all that brilliance, just so, eventually, you could sit up late at night and scan the web for porn.