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, and remarkably easy to trace USAID money to bad video games, Democrat election campaigns, riots, coups, terrorism, and revolution.)
From here: https://x.com/Kekius_Sage/status/2121677997703131211
Actually, SpaceX’s “Starfall” program (already prototype tested with Falcon) is further along. Starfall program is the development of disk shaped 1000 kg payload re-entry vehicle “care packages” ejected from Starship, for delivery anywhere on Earth in as short as 45 minutes. These require no infrastructure whatever at the delivery site. They have cold gas thrusters for fine tuning their re-entry trajectory.