Will man ever run out of ideas for entertainment?

I realize it's an odd question, and unfortunately, this is sometimes how my mind works. I think of rather morose concepts and dwell on them. However, this one's been bugging me for quite a while; I figured it may as well be a decent idea for discussion (hell, a good number of you have probably thought the same thing already):

Will mankind ever experience an absence of potential for creation in the world of entertainment? Will every song soon be composed? Will every script be written? If so, when would you guess these to occur?

 Note:

Half of me didn't want to post this, as I don't know if this will cause others to dwell on it like I do. The last thing I want to do is make people depressed.

I realize it's an odd question, and unfortunately, this is sometimes how my mind works. I think of rather morose concepts and dwell on them. However, this one's been bugging me for quite a while; I figured it may as well be a decent idea for discussion (hell, a good number of you have probably thought the same thing already):

Will mankind ever experience an absence of potential for creation in the world of entertainment? Will every song soon be composed? Will every script be written? If so, when would you guess these to occur?

 Note:

Half of me didn't want to post this, as I don't know if this will cause others to dwell on it like I do. The last thing I want to do is make people depressed.

[color="#cc8899"]Meh, I am already vastly disappointed in humanity, can't do much to me. Anyways, here's my take -
By the time this would happen, one or more of several other things will have happened

1. Mankind as we know it is destroyed, lost, or forgotten, allowing old ideas to be thought of as new and creative
2. A suppresive regime will limit free-thinking or dispose of creative materials and past entertainment media, again allowing mankind to re-imagine it believing it to be "new." In fact, the suppresive regime isn't even necessary for this - evidenced by the character archetypes common amongst all/nearly all cultures.
3. Mankind will utterly wipe itself out through war or scientific mistake, or be destroyed by a different existence (God, spacemen, molemen, etc). At which point this is moot. Anyways, never underestimate the creative potential of mankind - it takes direct intervention to stop imagination and creativity, evidenced by little kids creating imaginary friends when they are bored, playing pretend, seeing monsters in their closets.[/COLOR]

[color="#cc8899"]Meh, I am already vastly disappointed in humanity, can't do much to me. Anyways, here's my take -
By the time this would happen, one or more of several other things will have happened

1. Mankind as we know it is destroyed, lost, or forgotten, allowing old ideas to be thought of as new and creative
2. A suppresive regime will limit free-thinking or dispose of creative materials and past entertainment media, again allowing mankind to re-imagine it believing it to be "new." In fact, the suppresive regime isn't even necessary for this - evidenced by the character archetypes common amongst all/nearly all cultures.
3. Mankind will utterly wipe itself out through war or scientific mistake, or be destroyed by a different existence (God, spacemen, molemen, etc). At which point this is moot. Anyways, never underestimate the creative potential of mankind - it takes direct intervention to stop imagination and creativity, evidenced by little kids creating imaginary friends when they are bored, playing pretend, seeing monsters in their closets.[/COLOR]

Remind me not to think about this stuff while high.
OT: think about renaissance. No way this is gonna happen. If there's place for such things as infinite or the nothing, there's place for creations ad eternum.

I don't think we'll run out of ideas.

Maybe we'll run out of good ideas eventually, but we won't run out of ideas. When something is being milked for ideas, you'll run out (edit: I meant of good ones) eventually. For example, The Simpsons. D: (Although, technically, that's a large number of factors.)

[color="#cc8899"]In opposition to my previous post, this is also a possible scenario -
As mankind's knowledge and technology advances, what was previously impossible will become possible, and ideas incomprehensible currently would become the impossibilities of the future. Theoretically, this cycle could be infinite. Given mankind's generally destructive nature, however, it is unlikely that man will forever be allowed to continually grow without intervention by some force that suppresses or represses it, forcing it to stagnate or even revert to a previous state.[/COLOR]

Some things about man are eternal, others are transient. Human nature was the same 10,000 years ago, but customs and fashions change. Slowly we become more civilized, but it's an uphill battle against that in us which is inherently barbaric. If you read Homer's epics, the standards for civilization in there are absolutely loathsome next to those we have. But there is genius in his works which is applicable to our times, so it remains relevant.

Entertainment is not just entertainment, it is analysis of human nature. Even someone like Madonna or Britney Spears speak to what we want, at this moment at least. The great artists of the future study the past, borrow from it, and interpret it in a modern manner. Just as fashions are always changing, so are acceptable entertainments always changing. Yet, civilization is always evolving. Our journey of exploration will never end. I think after we've run out of things to do on Earth, (which we've nowhere near close to,) we'll do something like travel to Mars or Alpha Centauri. That might seem like fiction, but remember there was a time when we thought the earth was flat, and the known boundaries of the world were unexplored.

Just as there is a side to man that is barbaric and hideous, so is there one that is beautiful and elegant. I think in the end it will be the elegance that will define us; the tyrants pass and go, but civilization is immortal.

If there are an infinite amount of ideas (which I believe), an infinite amount of those ideas must be good ideas. Thus mankind will have enough entertainment for eternity.

I doubt there is a limit to creations. You already can't recreate an exact copy of something, like how you can't trace two lines exactly the same without a ruler. Thus, imagination and creation are infinite.

There will always be more entertainment, but I do believe that copyright's and such really burden the names of things. I get why the rules are there, but I do feel like it burdens us a bit. I'm mostly talking about song titles and such here.

As long as stupid people exist (which they will), bad ideas will be thought up and recorded and put into a video form and will keep us entertained. At least that's how I look at things, sorry if it's not exactly what you were referring to.

Man will never run out of enjoyment -- He has a penis.

Man will never run out of enjoyment -- He has a penis.

That's fuucking DEEP.

Makes me feel bad for the wimminz. There's only so many sammiches to be made.

Just do what people did in the past and start a new-old trend.
Blast from the past yo.