Maybe science fiction movies, as they've been made for the past couple of decades, have reached some sort of dead end.  Dead?  No.  People have been saying comic book superheroes were "dead" since Alan Moore's Watchmen in the eighties, but superhero comics are still there, and sometimes they may even be decent.  Hollywood seems to conflate science fiction with special effects action movies too much of the time, leaving little room for the science fictionry, except as gimmicks.  Hollywood overall seems to favor vapidity and flashiness rather than storytelling and good content - which could be said of comics, too, as far as I can tell.  That approach is a dead end almost as soon as it starts, IMO.  The whole point of films and comics is storytelling.  They're trying to make music videos and video games.  

I'm probably repeating others' opinions or OT at this point in the thread.  I respond to the OP, without having read any more, or having read the linked article. 

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.