It's already been happening for some time (and not always respectfully), with a constant stream of digitised remakes, samples and plagiarism of prior generations' work.Skip wrote:Henceforth, nobody needs to create anything new.
Just go to your nearest art museum and improve - respectfully! - whatever old canvases and bronzes you find there.
Yes, it's dull, and I'd rather that people thought up their own stuff but it seems that in many areas, most major ideas have already been thought of. Where to for music? Seemingly it is increasingly being subsumed by multimedia. Still art will also increasingly become dated, superseded by the greater realism and impact of moving pictures and sound. I like the relative understatement of old art but small nuances are not so popular today, the details lost and trivialised in modernity's noise.