Eben Moglen observed that at one time people were building giant stone pyramids, then the social and technological conditions changed, and people stopped making

Eben Moglen observed that at one time people were building giant stone pyramids, then the social and technological conditions changed, and people stopped making new ones. That's OK, it's not a sad thing that there are no new pyramids, we still have the old ones and people still find them awesome. And he says maybe big-budget movies are like that too, something that culture will do for a while and then move on to something different when the conditions change.