paulofilmo wrote:was reading gabe newell's ama. he mentions VR and brain-computer interfaces.
do you see 'cinema' existing in 50 years time?
While I don't think this in particular will pose an existential threat to traditional cinema (remember how 3 years ago it was predicted we'd all have google glasses by now(lol)), it indeed is the advance of technological capabilities disproportionally allowing for improvements in action-related facets rather than in storytelling devices that poses cinema's biggest threat. But, again, merely looking at all the things that came out this year: https://criticsroundup.com/2016-rankings/, much of which is made by people I had never heard of, makes it hard to become pessimistic. In 50 years the amount of people on planet earth both interested in artistic cinema and able to pay money to indulge in that interest will have increased a multitude from whatever it is now. According to the laws of capitalism or maybe at that point meritocratic system likely set up through AI, money will flow to those who can best fulfill those demands. Lastly, and I didn't write about this in my previous comments in this thread, a surging movement of individuals in both the experimental film world and youtube scene is afoot. Knowledge pertaining to film analysis is spreading fast, and the access to films and the time to study it is as well. Given all of the above, there's no way cinema will die in 50 years. Then again, I recall from back in the day when I was on lesswrong that an expert in the field, Armstrong, speculated the singularity would happen in the 2040's (I doubt it), at which point all bets are off.