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Possibly. Steel is commonly used because it is cheap and effective (for terrestrial use). For a space elevator, lighter is almost always better (think kevlar, teflon, strong plastics).

See the tether competition (another $2mil available from NASA) for where things are going (using materials containing nanotubes). The Spaceward guys are very positive about the effects this challenge are having on research.

I'm not saying the elevator is going to be built tomorrow, but it is doable. We will be a little late on providing sufficient lift capacity to launch all lawyers into the sun.

Ghost:
        So what you're saying is, when you take candy from a little bitty baby -
Zorak:
        I'm doing him a favor, for cryin' out loud!
http://www.c4vct.com/kym/sg/scripts/njcandy.htm

Apparently, the school is just trying to avoid a time paradox.

Fish Pockets, here I come!

But what if they didn't throw away the earlier work, and as you advanced in the game, it would change to more and more advanced rendering engines? And what if the transition between engines were seamless?

Imagine the typical "evolution of man" image, but instead depicting the increasing qualities of rendering Duke Nukem and the world around him. Kinda like this image from ReBoot.

The headline had me anticipating a car powered by a cat and some buttered toast but nooooo....

See HERE

For anyone that doesn't recognize this, it's an adaptation of a monologue done by Brak from the Space Ghost crew on Cartoon Network. Here's the original:

One time I hired a monkey to take notes for me in class. I would just sit there with my mind a complete blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week the teacher said, "Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes." So I wrote a paper that said "Hello, my name is Bingo. I like to climb on things. Can I have a banana? Eek eek." I got an F. When I told my Mom about it she said "I told you never trust a monkey!" The end.