In a broader sense, entertainment media serves several core functions within society:
Steven Spielberg’s harrowing depiction of D-Day changed the visual language of war films forever.
Furthermore, AI is the new "Napster" disruption. Just as 1998's music industry refused to see the digital download coming, today's Hollywood is wrestling with synthetic media. The "content" of 2026 may be generated by prompts derived from the tropes established in 1998.