Future generations will only laugh at GL - for all his attempts to modernize his old movies, the OT will, as it inevitably must, become a snapshot of its proper time and place. I really doubt Lucas will see to it that, after he becomes a Hayden Christensen Force-ghost, someone updates the OT time and time again to try and keep up with whatever the latest film technology demands. Furthermore, the gap between '77 visuals and '97 visuals or '04 visuals will be so freaking obvious to the audiences of the future that the SEOT will look comically bad, like a woman in her sixties wearing tight clothing and excessive makeup. I only hope that future film buffs remember that the embarrassment of the SEOT was the failing of George Lucas, not the films themselves.