I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

