It is too powerful a tool to be merely a passing fad, or eventually discarded as just a design tool. Like any other medium, the essence of the material has its own intrinsic aesthetic qualities with which its disciples will acquire familiarity. The world is smaller and linked by mega-corporations. Socioeconomic and political decisions are made quicker and fan out to affect those close, as well as far abroad. Computers can become the medium that reflect this new corporate internationalism.
Movies already play upon our imagination of surreal galactic fantasies.
It is just a matter of time before all those who work with terminal workstations learn to appreciate the common graphic capabilities of their machines that know no physical or territorial boundaries.