Now heres a thread for all your future heads out there...(not the band) Do you think there will ever come a time when every song has been created, when every type and style of art has been created, when every storyline has been used? I was thinking to myself earlier that at some point in the future, albeit distant, everything will have been done already. This is not just pure speculation, it has been noted that the end of the world may come in the form of the end of creativity rather than any natural distaster.

 

Think about it, in 100 years time it will be hard to come up with new film ideas, but what about 1000 years? 10,000 years? Then again maybe the film genre will be dead and replaced by virtual reality experiences of some kind? Im probably talking nonsense and probably end up changing my opinion within a few hours...

 

thoughts?

I'm sure no one person can watch every single film ever made ever so there will always be things you haven't seen or heard before :lol:

enough i'm sure to keep you amused for 80 odd years :wacky:

I think new platforms will be made that right now seem inconceivable. This will allow things to carry on being made. Also since most art is a reflection on life, with so many events occurring all the time there will always be new expressions and movements.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Charles H. Duell, 1899

the commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents.

 

 

So my answer is obviously not there mr. Christopher Duell Martin.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Charles H. Duell, 1899

the commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents.

 

 

So my answer is obviously not there mr. Christopher Duell Martin.

 

I've heard that quoted often, though never the source. Thanks.

No problemo

The source is what makes it so awesome. Maybe he was just receiving so many shitty patent requests that he gave up all hope in humanity to invent anything good.

Imagine saying that though. I wonder what the 'final' invention was which sparked him to say that. Or perhaps, the lamest idea for an invention which made him think it was all over. Either way, what a fool. I know it's easy to say in retrospect, but it's not like there was ever a lull where nothing was invented for a while.

The world might end by then. Lulz.

Now heres a thread for all your future heads out there...(not the band) Do you think there will ever come a time when every song has been created, when every type and style of art has been created, when every storyline has been used? I was thinking to myself earlier that at some point in the future, albeit distant, everything will have been done already. This is not just pure speculation, it has been noted that the end of the world may come in the form of the end of creativity rather than any natural distaster.

 

Think about it, in 100 years time it will be hard to come up with new film ideas, but what about 1000 years? 10,000 years? Then again maybe the film genre will be dead and replaced by virtual reality experiences of some kind? Im probably talking nonsense and probably end up changing my opinion within a few hours...

 

thoughts?

literature teachers always told me that cultural movements always revisioned other's works and came up with ne ideas, disliked the immidatelly previous moment and liked the one previous to the current one, so they modified it and bring something 'new'.

 

that said i personally we think big movements in culture were those in avant-garde and so (dadaism and so), in XX, and nothing new has been after that, just society changed but not culture, or if did not at same rhythm.

 

musically speaking a lot of genres are mixing,, and i don't think what motivates people to do music or lyrics will change.

 

other matter are political or socio-economy that can affect creatives in the near future, and which is doing affecting them, but is not creating much new.

 

i don't think the culture brians will freeze, and if so it has happened already, but i guess some brains will be active again, at least i hope so.

 

a good fair revisionism will be good to bring up something 'new', plus it's always been like that, but i doubt it'll happen or that society will change with it.

 

other subject is the arts and the platforms, as now you can read a book digitally, or music you can have MP3, and also vynil is pretty popular since the last years, while cassettes, vhs and cd disappeared or are in the process to.

 

techonology is mixing with other matters and changing people lifes, as other stuff i guess that will make the arts to adapt to it.

LOLZ, sometimes I really wonder about that.

Drives me crazy and stop thinking about it.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Charles H. Duell, 1899

the commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents.

 

 

So my answer is obviously not there mr. Christopher Duell Martin.

 

Yes i know of this quote and infact ive used it many times myself. The point im trying to make isnt about inventions, its more along the lines of is it possible for a certain art form to have a maximum potential limit of new ideas? Logically I believe it is physically impossible the amount of ideas to be infinite. I mean there are only a certain amount of configurations for the 12 musical notes? There are only a certain amout of basic storylines (im not talking about details).

And of course i agree with Emp3 that it wont matter to me personally but still..

 

So let me just clarify that, i dont think everything has been invented in terms of art, far from it, i think many new ideas await humankind. Im just curious to whether there is a limit.

Imagine saying that though. I wonder what the 'final' invention was which sparked him to say that. Or perhaps, the lamest idea for an invention which made him think it was all over. Either way, what a fool. I know it's easy to say in retrospect, but it's not like there was ever a lull where nothing was invented for a while.

 

Yeh if only he could see Dragon's Den. There's a thought, imagine Dragons Den in 1000 years time, it would be so alien to us. Any invention ideas for that? I predict a way of showering without getting wet, sort of like a particle extractor at the touch of a button? Or maybe they will be so advanced they could fly unaided??!

 

....Ive digressed again

Things will always change and there will be new technologies even if it's subtle.

 

In terms of songs I've often thought about eventually there will be no unique song, but I think there still are so many possiblities with a wide variety of scales, instruments, chords, keys, time signatures, tempos, rhythms, that you can use.

Things will always change and there will be new technologies even if it's subtle.

 

In terms of songs I've often thought about eventually there will be no unique song, but I think there still are so many possiblities with a wide variety of scales, instruments, chords, keys, time signatures, tempos, rhythms, that you can use.

 

yeh you're right

I don't think there's a chance we'll evolve enough in 1,000 years to be able to fly but yeah, I don't think the world will be anything like what it is now.

 

The book I'm reading at the moment has a few things that Scientists said in 1901.

 

In the first Illustrated London News of 1901, various eminent Scientists were asked to give their predictions about the new century. Sir Norman Lockyer explains that studying sunspots will enable people to forecast weather, tackling 'famines in India, and droughts in Australia' in advance. Sir W. H. Preece, co-inventor of the wireless telegraph, thinks that 'the people of 2000 will smile at our achievements as we smile at those of 1800' but warns that wireless communications have no further to go and is dubious about whether man will really fly through the air. Sir John Wolfe Barry, the engineer of Tower Bridge, believes we will see wave power and hydro electric power in the twentieth century; though he also predicts 'moving platforms' above and below the streets to ease congestion. Sir William Crookes suspects telephones will become popular, and is interested in 'radium' as a new source of energy - predictions which he rather spoils by suggesting all London will be covered by a large glass lid to deal with the weather. Sir Henry Roscoe, president of the Chemical Society believes the 'annihilation of distance' cannot be carried much further in the twentieth century: 'The Atlantic voyage, for instance, which we can now accomplish in five days, is not likely to be reduced to one.'

 

/still off topic

I don't think there's a chance we'll evolve enough in 1,000 years to be able to fly but yeah, I don't think the world will be anything like what it is now.

 

The book I'm reading at the moment has a few things that Scientists said in 1901.

 

 

 

/still off topic

 

I dont think humans will naturally evolve in 1000 years lol:rolleyes: but genetic mutation is a real possibility. We can already make mice glow green.

 

 

Fascinating, shame about the last two lines, he was doing so well!

Do you think there will ever come a time when every song has been created, when every type and style of art has been created, when every storyline has been used?

 

Oh my god I freaked myself out so much with this last summer, and now my freaking out has returned haha.

 

i think perhaps.

For a second I thought the thread title was Future Crestivity :blank:

I lol'd