Criswell Predicts: There are already online render farms that you can send files to. By then, every business will be selling spare CPU cycles to the global grid and you will be able to rent vast amounts of horsepower to render your masterpiece. It should be possible using AI to create at least rudimentary digital assistants to help with lighting photography etc. There will be lots of kinky porn created, assuming the new theocracy hasn't outlawed it entirely by then. There will be a tremendous controversy over whether Vicki XXIV doing Mildog XVI should be legal. A raft of ultra-real videos depicting public figures engaged in illicit acts will cause the ultimate collapse of organized society as we know it. Bill Gates will become world emperor. Aliens from Epsilon Eridani, alarmed at mankind's primitive and violent nature will disable all technology. People will begin to draw kinky porn on the walls of their caves.

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