Star Wars at 30: Still Relevant?

I still remember going to see Star Wars for the first time as a little kid. I was so innocent and unspoiled going in that when the cinema piped in the soundtrack while we were waiting for the movie to start, I didn't understand why everyone was cheering -- I'd never heard the music before. As the movie progressed I was mesmerized ... smitten ... indoctrinated into science fiction from that day forward.

I was just as excited when the Special Edition came out, too, standing on long lines to see it over and over again on the big screen at the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan. But when Star Wars suddenly turned thirty a couple weeks ago, I started wondering what its future was. Does a film that was created a long time ago in a totally differrent filmmaking galaxy have anything to say to the techno-savvy, effects-happy citizens of the 21st century?