In the 1950's, the first Powers of Ten zoom book was hand drawn from books over years. Around 1980, a PoT film and book could use photos, but still good people made mistakes. Now creating a PoT zoom book can be homework. A video a school project. An XR a professional project. Technology, media search, acquisition, and handling costs, throttles science education content.
Necessary but not sufficient, of course. The first book might have been imagined and created earlier, but wasn't. 1950's astronomy textbooks needn't have had the color of the Sun wrong, and the same now in 2020. Though, anticipated difficulty of creation does throttle imagination...
If OP search were deployed on youtube, and fair use in its current form was allowed to survive, providing a historical step-change in the abundance and accessibility of reusable content, how might you imagine using that?