Speaking of photography, I haven't seen much in terms of new services or opportunities for photographers made available through technology in the past few years

Speaking of photography, I haven't seen much in terms of new services or opportunities for photographers made available through technology in the past few years. Where's all the innovation in this field? Is the medium dying out? Instagram gave photographers a hugely popular new avenue to show their work, although it does shrink your 50mb asset to a crappy thumbnail. It's hard to stand out, very similarly to the App Store. 500px is pretty neat, but it's mostly an echo chamber for photographers, the public is elsewhere. Cameras are mostly the same over the years, just better and faster. Mirrorless is cool, but not necessarily game changing. Seems like a very static industry. We've all done the same HDR shots thousands of times from every conceivable angle of every conceivable object and person, it's getting stale. I suspect that most photographers will have to move into video sooner or later, as that is a lot more engaging for the masses, and still photos will be like black and white photography, mostly relegated to high art and academia. One avenue I can see happening down the line is that all of our assets and editing will eventually be in the cloud, a la Google Docs. Right now the only issue is the size and quantity of assets, which is orders of magnitude higher than text files, but we'll get there.