Oddbean new post about login | logout the earth is flat so the moon is not a place you can go! /s crazy that people actually argue this in the age of cell phones.
I believe it's possible to argue in any age, with or without cell phones. Appeal to technology is just a veiled appeal to authority. This is why we call it the technocracy. There is no reason why cell phones would inherently help us get closer to the truth... quite the opposite! There's plenty of evidence to deduce that cell phones can actually obscure the truth. Hopefully you are not involved with emboldening this latter position...
The point is cell phones and modern computing are predicated on the technological advancements of the Apollo program. not that they inherently make information gathering more reliable.
Got it! Apollo, ergo cell phones. If you lock a bunch of people in shiny, clean rooms and say, "do math... or else!"... OK, I get it, but many inventions have been recreated or "pre-invented" by synchronous thinkers and inventors to the point of awarding the weaker mind the historical honorific of inventor while memory-holing the OG inventor. Why would nasa and apollo be immune from that?