Oh come on -- it would be another reboot, of course.

What's that whooshing sound?

You know that cars from modern times have them as well, right?

No, it's not like that at all. If the compiler performs calculations then the person following the steps would have to execute them for your analogy to be relevant. Try again.

Variables going out of scope would be more like losing your hands and voice...

Kids these days don't even wonder why they use words like "dial" with regard to their phones (since there's no rotatable disc or round face to indicate time or any other unit of measure). The odd person might give it a moment's thought at most.

You're confusing "ignorance" with "bias". Art encompasses more than you define art as.

"The music industry's quality of output has been noticeably poor over the past few decades."

Way to confuse opinion with fact. Yeesh. Every generation makes that statement, grampa.

Not gonna happen. To truly get rid of grossly overpaid celebrities (whether they're actors, athletes, whatever) you'd have to get rid of the grossly overpaying audiences. Not everyone's a slashdot geek eager to watch artificial actors.

"but you no longer need to hire filming locations, stage stunts"

You clearly don't understand what motion capture is.

Bah. I have no problems with her tattoos and I'm not into trailer trash. You don't need sophisticated motion capture to remove tattoos.

You're missing the point -- SyFy can be trademarked.

Even this reply misses the mark. No one was asking for a history of editing.

Again, what decent editing system today isn't nonlinear?

Well, clearly it does.