10-20-2009, 04:35 PM
I think we'll always have new stories because we keep having new ideas. Our heads have always been bigger than the universe we know about, and the universe we know about keeps expanding. Culture keeps changing too, which is going to influence what stories we can think of.
Suppose you were an alien race and you came to earth. You find we have all this art and all these stories. You quickly store them all in your computers and neatly catalog them. Since you are really only interested in art, do you:
a) Destroy the earth to make way for your new super highway, having decided that we have already done everything we are ever going to do, artistically, and therefore we have no future value to the universe.
or
b) Keep us intact to see what new art or stories we might come up with next, because it's immediately apparent that we have a great ability to think outside of the bounds of the universe.
I'd go with "b".
For now.
I think there are a lot of stories we haven't even dreamed of yet.
Suppose you were an alien race and you came to earth. You find we have all this art and all these stories. You quickly store them all in your computers and neatly catalog them. Since you are really only interested in art, do you:
a) Destroy the earth to make way for your new super highway, having decided that we have already done everything we are ever going to do, artistically, and therefore we have no future value to the universe.
or
b) Keep us intact to see what new art or stories we might come up with next, because it's immediately apparent that we have a great ability to think outside of the bounds of the universe.
I'd go with "b".
For now.
I think there are a lot of stories we haven't even dreamed of yet.