Apps - It's a New World

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 I figure you can safely say: It's a new world out there.

For clarity I write on Saturday eve, Sept. 18, 2021 at 277 Elm.

Just saw a pitch onscreen for a new 'app'. It deals with astronomy and stars.
It has info in its database of some 100,000,000 stars - that's a hundred million - or a hundred thousand of thousands.

This number blows me away - metaphorically of course. Wowsie.
All this in a single app that is readily accommodated in the memory of most phones I see these days.

Fuggetabout the memory thing and just reflect on the knowledge base.
I gotta figure that when I first took a computer course - 1970 - there were not 100,00,000 identified sky objects in our known universe. So not only have we, as a species, discovered and observed these objects, we have given them names and trajectories, and put it all in an app, which you carry on your phone in your pants pocket. Amazing.