If/when they do update SSE, they need to create an ending to the ride that can be updated frequently to stay timely. That will always be SSE's cross to bear, as well as most of Future World-creating a vision of the future that doesn't quickly become nostalgia.
If TWDC were to ask me (and honestly I can't imagine why they wouldn't), I'd say create some sort of multi-camera film experience for the end of SSE that shows people working on the latest trends in communication/media, while also focusing on the human element in communication (ie, people who obviously care about each other, who are talking to each other, all that happy crappy). I mean the real heartwarming "oh my God the future is now!" stuff-working on means for the deaf & mute to talk in "real time," the work being done to communicate with primates & dolphins, robots who are learning to respond to commands and interact with humans, etc. And combine it with a different sort of "what if" section. Right now the end of the ride is an adult's concept of what commuication will be like dot dot dot IN THE FUTURE! Seeing the American White Boy being told he's "one cool dude" by the young Asian girl as they converse twixt their videola movie phones...come on, it's a setting & dialogue that'd make George Lucas giggle & roll his eyes. Have kids talk about what they THINK the next big thing will be, and have it represented by their own drawings rather than spending millions of dollars on an Audio-Animatronic scene that will seem antiquated in 2 or 3 years' time. And when these pieces become outdated, it will be quicker & easier to revise it, without diminshing or trvializing the original vision of SSE.
