One can only hope...

Existing successes in the modeling software are mostly confined to modeling synthesizers and tone-wheel electro mechanical keyboards, and some tine-based pianos (Rhodes and Wurli's, primarily), which have VASTLY simpler behavior properties than acoustic instruments.

Can anyone point me to ANY acoustic instrument model that is truly capable of fooling the listener? At a wide range of musics and performance techniques? I can't honestly say I've heard one yet...

Moore's Law is starting to bump into theoretical limits, so you have to posit an entirely revolutionary technology that no-one has yet successfully developed to go with the idea of even ONE instrument being emulated successfully. One clarinet... one super computer. Two clarinets, two supercomputers (each model is totally independent, two voices takes twice the horsepower)...

You can see how far things are going to have to go to emulate an orchestra. I'm sorry, but I don't see this in my lifetime.

But i guess the average symphonic clarinet player is not the slightest bit concerned with whether his job is replaced by modeling, or by sampling. He's out of a job, either way...