From the last man on the moon on 1972-12-14, till Musk landed an orbital class booster on 2015-12-21, we saw tech decline, though progress continued in integrated circuit manufacture to ArFi lithography in 2006-2007
With AI and Ship 41, we now see a decisive reversal of that tech decline.
When Musk gets his free electron laser chip lithography process working, we may see substantial progress resume in integrated circuit manufacture. With a free electron laser, you can do phase shift masks and inner electron shell frequency tuned resists.
Of course that tech progress is occurring within social decay, which tends to kill it. The Democrats intend to seize X, Starlink, and SpaceX, and charge Musk with crimes against humanity. (Since couping USAID supposedly murdered millions African orphans, think of the children, though it seems strangely difficult to trace a single dollar of USAID money to a single African orphan.)