robinbloke | Keyboard missing - press F1 to continue

Possibly one of the finest error messages ever produced by a computer, that, right up there with my two other personal favourites; typing
Renumber 500,500
on the BBC series of old micros would report "Silly".
And the unix command of
rm god
reporting that "god does not exist."

I work with these things every day and it still amuses me at that essentially although the computer is a logic based device everything it is and everything it does is designed by humans and therefore has an underlying error factor.
It's all going to end in automated movies.

Look at CGI now, "we" can automatically generate characters that are fully animated and backdrops that are photorealistic; are we are approaching the point where there will be no new stories, no actors, no sets, no hollywood? Just a keyboard on a directors desk hooked up to his laptop PC that simply says "Enter genre, previous film references, target audience/certificate maximum run time and any two amusing quotes." they hit a key and bingo, we suddenly have a varient on bladerunner and aliens spewing forth onto the screen, automatically generated and edited, scripted and set all ready for release.
It'll happen.

Because films aren't about entertaining, not the big ones, not 'anymore' (were they ever?). It's all about the green, the money, the moolah, the cash, the wonga. Look at the music industry, it's realised this and streamlined the whole process down to almost an art form, with the actual selection process for the whole band generating money as well, it's a win win situation.
Pick your ideal market/target audience (given record sales and market of audience and best age category for purchasing singles) = teenage girls. Select your ideal 'beautiful people' from the line up of ever eager applicants begging for their 15 minutes before they return back to being hairdressers and pimps; select a previous hit single thats no longer under copyright or can be bought cheap, and the obligitory "thump thump thump" backtrack, make a dance move, dub and presto. You have your winners.

How long until they do this with films too? Line up a list of people for their first starring role, use the audience to determine genre from the directors ideal audience type, spin the wheel of fortune for the movie type (teen splat/highschool/sex-comedy/etc) slap together some scenes and dialog from the audience suggestions and bam. We have our hit.
Curtain call please.