I was just thinking about something for a minute. Obviously, the way graphics in computers and technology are going now, you will see actual photo-realistic graphics in about 20-30 years (what I mean is, you can hardly tell the discrepancies in fake world).

So what's going to happen? Sure, you can always expand the finite boundaries of an artificial world, but after a while, you're motivation for advancement is lost. You could possibly make a real-life role playing game, (that would probably get motonous, and probably wouldn't be a game as much as a pyschological learning tool) but what's going to happen after that?

Are the computer graphical arts actually a dying artform? I mean, we have been drawing on and with various mediums for thousands of years (from simple figures on stones, to high-quality, super-rich paper), but can this artform really become less of an artform (and even die?), because of what it is becoming? If everything looks real, would some people really care to look at it? Everyone that does computer graphics would be using roughly similar engines to create these pictures and worlds, so I believe it would get very....well, you might get sick of it after a while.

I can't really say if it will dissapear, but many people like to look at art because of the artist's interpretations of humans, and figures, and the many different lines and strokes he uses.

Opinions?