#04 - Charles Fishman - How Apollo Transformed the World : Lessons Beyond America

On the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo moon landings, we welcomed New-York Times Best Selling Author Charles Fishman (@cfishman), who wrote the book 'One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that flew us to the moon’ (https://www.amazon.com/One-Giant-Leap-Untold-Story/dp/1501106295/). Follow our host Waheed Rahman (@iwaheedo) for more updates on tech and civilization. We talk about: - the factors that led to the success of one of the largest government-funded deep-science technology projects.- spinoff technologies and effects of Apollo on hardware and software we do today- communist management style vs democratic leadership- privatisation of space economy, decreasing costs, similarities to internet economy and opportunity for emerging market countries.- climate change, poverty vs space investment priorities? Here are the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players, you should be able to click the timestamp for the episode.  (00:00) - Intro (09:08)  - Key factors that made a major technology project like Apollo successful (17:25) Evolution of Soviet centralized vs American decentralized management systems (23:12) - Apollos systemic impact on software (28:35) - Apollo as a global trust-building exercise for software (29:02) - Some of the defining spinoff technologies from Apollo (37:52) - How the context of 50s and 60s defined America and the Apollo mission  (43:03)  - Is space travel affordable? (44:39) - Investing in space technologies vs investing in climate change and poverty (47:06) - How does space science reinforce climate science?  (48:00) - Is there a new space race on the horizon? (53:29) - Opportunities for developing nations in the space domain (58:02) - Space applications within the local context (64:24) - Outro