I'm getting tired of throwback, or retro or whatever you want to call it. Some historian once said that a when a society starts to copy it's early work it's a sure sign that that society is in decline. Beginning with the neo-classical Roman stuff, then the Romanesque, then the Neo-Gothic and right down to the new Beetle, the new Mustang, the PT Cruise and the new new Beetle.
I'm just old enough to remember when we used to look forward to the new cars that were coming out and the new movies that were coming out. I'm well old enough to remember when the new cars were kinda dissappointing and sequels became the rage. When I was a kid in the 80s, if you wanted a fast car you didn't buy a new car, you got something from the 60s and fixed it up. Now, they've made it clear that they can't compete with the passion we had back then so they'll just copy the old stuff. We'll buy caricatures of antiques cause it reminds us of when our world wasn't in decline.
As for the Asians, I don't think it'll be long before they stop making our retro stuff for us and start making their own truly original stuff and then maybe we can look forward to what's coming again instead of what we've left behind.