&gt;<i>Movies are still important, pop music is important, graphic design (of magazines and web sites and apps) is more important than it has ever been before.</i><p>Pop music is not as important as it was either. Musicians used to be huge cultural phenomena, and a kind of escape into another world, now there are tons of similar escapes (computer games, for example, a huge thing, weren&#x27;t even available to the common how when pop was huge, nor where social media, chat, YouTube, Instagram, the modern &quot;artistically relevant and high production quality&quot; tv series and tons of other things). Now you can ask 10 people and they wouldn&#x27;t know a current top 10 song -- whereas in the 70&#x27;s for example it would be inescapable.<p>And graphic design has faded too -- there was a brief period in the mid-eighties to early 00s were graphic designers were huge pop heroes -- interviews in magazines, stars like Neville Brody, David Carson that you get to hear about even as a layman, etc. Now it&#x27;s only other graphic and web folk care about graphic and web designers.<p>&gt;<i>People change, and the culture changes.</i><p>It&#x27;s also good however to be making judgement calls on those changes too. Else we accept everything and anything as fate.