Hey Google, what's a moonshot?: how Silicon Valley mocks Apollo

Abstract

Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.

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Index Terms

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • History of computing