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This was it - 20 years ago in May 1990 we welcomed the new tech of the Kodak DCS-100 - well worth a google if you can't remember it.
But even today, I still meet people who are judges/lecturers etc who still think digital is some sort of new fangled work of the devil creation . 
However, that as may be - Happy Birthday to Digital - it's probably brought photography to more people than anything else and i'd much rather be carrying my modern camera than the old Kodak and its accompanying storage package etc!
I expect that 20 years from now people will be saying how well things have moved on from the first 20 years of digital!
By then I expect that you'll probably be able to log into the likes of EPZ and facebook on the rear lcd panel while you're waiting for the right time to take the sunrise/sunset.
More upmarket models will probably allow you to read a novel while you wait for the rain to pass. 
There is every likelihood that digital TV will be streamed to the LCD panel to allow you to take in eastenders while you wait for the right time to capture your next bird on a stick! 
Camera manufacturers will always need to come up with something new to keep us upgrading!
It may all sound like fantasy but you never know!
Ken
Ken
My first was an Olympus C750 UZ in 2004 (chopped in an EOS 10 
)
I met a chap at Marwell Zoo a few years ago (I had a D70 at the time) and he was 'shooting' the water birds on the lake by the entrance with a Mavica... 'floppy' drive media - the lot. Turns out he is a world-famous ornithologist and author - wouldn't change the camera for all the tea in China as 'it delivers what I need for my illustrations'.
'Nuff said!!
The next stage will be something that reads our brains, No needs for a camera or anything else, You will be able to project your thoughts/pictures/ideas/secrets Whatever, To something resembling a computer, This then Analise's everything, Keeps the good bits, Tells you where your going wrong, Or how to get it right.....
Then you will be able to upload all the corrected or new data straight into your brain/memory.....
Job Done.....!!!
Or is it, Because what sort of world would it be if machines did all the thinking and all the work for you......
MMMmmm a world full of very clever clones, Without an original idea/thought between them.....!!!
Sounds mad perhaps...But governments around the world would love this " Consumer/Clone/Worker " it would make the wheels of consumerism run even smoother than they do now.
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It may all sound like fantasy but you never know!
Ken
Ken
Before I started sitting up all night surfing, I used to sit up all night reading. As a teenager in the 60s I was an avid Sci-Fi reader. A staple of Sci-Fi (cf. StarTrek!) was the hand-held communicator. We've all got them nowadays. We call them mobile phones.
Alex
I think that the time will come when camera manufacturers will reach the pinicle of technological advances in the world of photography and then to make money will just make better lenses, and simply change the mount in which these new super compact or lite or crystalised glass lenses will fit onto.
Seeing as i am a beginer i wont be able to afford to upgrade, so for now i suppose i better get a job as a lawyer
Thank God you have principles and don't want to disgrace yerself by becoming a BANKER!!!
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