SpaceX was a moonshot. Who in their right mind would think of a relatively minor private enterprise being able to stand toe to toe with NASA. Google Maps/Earth

SpaceX was a moonshot. Who in their right mind would think of a relatively minor private enterprise being able to stand toe to toe with NASA. Google Maps/Earth, and GPS in general, blow my mind to this day. Think of the applications that most of us work on. Not even close. I think ZBrush, the 3d modeling/sculpting program, was a total moonshot. It's been copied many times since, but it totally changed the way movie and game art is made. Neural nets in general. Observe the simplicity of a neuron, attempt to arrange roughly analogous entities and connections with gradient descent error minimizing, and something approximating intelligence emerges. Pretty crazy. The internet is a moonshot.