> but I don't know how much this had been limited by motivation vs technology before then. The answer I've always found has been it's a bit of both. Motivation

> but I don't know how much this had been limited by motivation vs technology before then. The answer I've always found has been it's a bit of both. Motivation drives technological development but motivation is also very heavily driven by the available technology. You have to conceive that a thing is possible before you can think about what tech can be developed to do it for example.