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[Toolmaker51]

I'd offer that capabilities are seriously overrated yet under used.

The real impasse is 'visualization'. Large or small, that spark is what sets realization in motion. At a turn it could manifest in tangible objects, foresight, lucky guess, acceptance and support of expertise.

Eiffel Tower. Union Station Los Angeles or Kansas City. Hoover Dam. Howe's sewing machine. Zebco Reels. Kiekhaefer outboards. Safety Pin. Diesel's engine [that Cummins perfected]. Model T. Auto-5. P&W SuperMic. the vernier. ballpoint pen. Slinky, when some guy dropped a spring. Only rocket science is rocket science.

And then some couldn't see past their success in the very same way.
Ford most notably 'stole' intermittent wipers that were offered to the Big Three and refused. Identical copies were found on production cars later. Cost to Ford? About 30 million.
Sam Colt, ignored patent opportunity on Whites bored through cylinder. That Put S&W in business.
Thales, commissioned all local olive oil plants a season in advance, then jobbed out processing at any rate he pleased.

And the Auto-5? Oliver Winchester, who bought more of J.M. Browning's designs than anyone didn't accept the business stipulations that time. So FN, Remington, and others produced them instead; totaling over 100 years! O.W. by the way, fortunes were in shirt manufacture until he met J.M.B...
He, who initiated gas activation via muzzle blast on fallen snow, certainly not the only one to see, just the first to observe.

I've harped now an then as "this" not being just a hobby. You can do what major corporations do; in reasonable, manageable scale.
Again, I'd offer that capabilities are seriously overrated yet under used. The real impasse is 'visualization'.