Its also interesting that the technologies developed to close the gap between digital systems and their physical counterparts eventually create the efficiencies

Its also interesting that the technologies developed to close the gap between digital systems and their physical counterparts eventually create the efficiencies for them to surpass them in the long run. For example: Noise, image sharpness and sensitivity algorithms applied to early CMOS 2 and 3 megapixel sensors eventually allowed 8-65 megapixels sensors to far surpass the quality of their physical counterparts (a current 8mp sensor is better than 35mm film, 65mp sensors are far better than medium format film even though their resolutions are roughly comparable) Its like stepping backwards to digitize it forces the development of efficiencies required later to create a far better product.