Post by gw on Jan 10, 2020 23:29:15 GMT
This may be true for live action films but for animation the situation is a bit different. In the 90's hand drawn animation was the main form of theatrical animation whereas now it's 3D computer animation. But unfortunately the perception of animation being mainly for children hasn't changed much, at least in American animation. I would have thought that now that CGI has broken the realism barrier that people would have some respect for animation by now.
I would argue that with cars you can tell the difference. Station wagons don't really exist anymore and even if the cars are bland, the styles of cars have changed a fair amount on a surface level. There has been a general commercialist environment that resists change like the fact that very few companies control most radio stations and live music venues in the US. Also, the infrastructure is outmoded because most of the current Republicans don't want the Democrats to look good so they vote against bills that would benefit us all if they think it would benefit the Democrats. I don't want to put all the blame on one party and I won't ignore how Obama gave green energy money to his political bedfellows and supporters whose companies ended up failing.
I think that there are other reasons that things haven't changed much. There is a certain point you reach where new looks deviate so much from common people's preferences that they don't feel like changing the status quo much anymore. Most people wouldn't like a home that looks like a Frank Gehry building for example so there's not been much change. Most people want rectilinear home designs and that's what they get. For things like mainstream airlines' airplane design there's not been much change because the companies care more about business than anything else, at least Boeing does. They moved their headquarters to Chicago which complicated the airplane manufacturing and probably led to many of the faults that caused multiple airplane crashes with the 737 Maxes.
I suspect that we will see some bigger changes soon as store retail does its best to compete with online retail. And surveillance and sousveillance will surely change things more and more as time goes on. I wonder what things would look like if so many major corporations like banks and auto manufacturers weren't bailed out in the late 00's and things were allowed to progress naturally. I suspect that our society would have changed to a greater degree. That's all I have to say, loose thoughts on various aspects of the times then and now.
I would argue that with cars you can tell the difference. Station wagons don't really exist anymore and even if the cars are bland, the styles of cars have changed a fair amount on a surface level. There has been a general commercialist environment that resists change like the fact that very few companies control most radio stations and live music venues in the US. Also, the infrastructure is outmoded because most of the current Republicans don't want the Democrats to look good so they vote against bills that would benefit us all if they think it would benefit the Democrats. I don't want to put all the blame on one party and I won't ignore how Obama gave green energy money to his political bedfellows and supporters whose companies ended up failing.
I think that there are other reasons that things haven't changed much. There is a certain point you reach where new looks deviate so much from common people's preferences that they don't feel like changing the status quo much anymore. Most people wouldn't like a home that looks like a Frank Gehry building for example so there's not been much change. Most people want rectilinear home designs and that's what they get. For things like mainstream airlines' airplane design there's not been much change because the companies care more about business than anything else, at least Boeing does. They moved their headquarters to Chicago which complicated the airplane manufacturing and probably led to many of the faults that caused multiple airplane crashes with the 737 Maxes.
I suspect that we will see some bigger changes soon as store retail does its best to compete with online retail. And surveillance and sousveillance will surely change things more and more as time goes on. I wonder what things would look like if so many major corporations like banks and auto manufacturers weren't bailed out in the late 00's and things were allowed to progress naturally. I suspect that our society would have changed to a greater degree. That's all I have to say, loose thoughts on various aspects of the times then and now.