Re:Wrong summary (Score 1)

Indeed, the summary however sounds pretty accurate to me.

...a stifling array of possibilities...

Software rendering has gone quite far in terms of image quality in the last two decades. The images artists can create with modeling applications coupled with mental ray for example are absolutely stunning. It will be interesting to follow these techniques to find their way into real-time applications.

Pixar's Renderman has proven quite succesful for rendering somewhat complex sequences of moving images. I'll be waiting to see real-time implementations of REYES-style micropolygon approaches in the coming years. Few advantages would be high-order surfaces, high quality sampling and shading, displacements, motion blur and depth of field. Like said in the article:

So it sounds like right now is a really good time to be a graphics programmer.