The Elon brought us reusable launch vehicles. He's creating the panopticon. Getting these things made is significant, not that the panopticon is going to be beneficial to humanity, but it is a significant achievement, and takes surveillance to a new, freakish, level. He's not just an obscurantist. He's definitely a frontman, but there's revolutionary results coming out of that front. Dozens of companies are following trails he's blazed today, and each of those trails.
The surveillance issue is problematic, almost surreal, and he's not forthright about it, but who is? Giordano, maybe, but he's a defense research guy, not a Robber Baron like the Elon. If we have a hope of catching some route past the sky, it'll be because Spacex dropped the cost of payloads to orbit by an order of magnitude.
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