If we really think about it, we are just at the start of digital photography. Some famous photographer mentioned just recently that we are in the digital stone age. Basically digital capture has already caught up with film, except possibly the ultra wide formats. There is no stopping digital though.

Camera sensors are getting better. Pixels are increasing and digital noise is decreasing. Computing power is ever growing. Are we ever going to see an end to this? Never. How good can all of this get? Only time will tell. Chips and sensors will always improve but will we be held back by our ability to produce glass? Will the sensors outperform our lenses?

I cannot imagine what kind of photos we will be able to produce five years from now.
Yes, photography still depends on the photographer but now we have all the tools to make everything possible. What an exciting time it is to be a photographer.

as the digital age/technology grows so do man's apparent need for no-brain-involved processes.

thats what scares me. people become lazy and people become stupid. i guess 5 years from now youll get an automatic printer calibrating camera where if you hook the camera to a printer everything calibrates to a WYSIWYG kind of mode.

yes its good but sometimes it limits creativeness.....but then again its up to us to keep creativity alive. Im not saying that man will stop being creative but sometimes we fall through the cracks of humanity and would rather do it the easy way.

"Just continue to take good photographs now; for tomorrow is another day..." :) Give it a few more years and we all will be singing another song... It has always been so...