You have mentioned nothing about content or industry economics…

And a return of Polaroid???? You must be kidding.

This article lacks any real vision farther than a year or two out. As well, there is not thought to software innovation.

Fast lenses are largely a holdover and largely irrelevant when you can now just keep jacking up the ISO. In fact. why would you want to keep limiting you DOF?

There will always be new games such as HDR. They serve the industry very well… to keep moving product by giving consumers new tricks and models of invention to aspire to and evolve.

As for the battery play. It’s a game unto itself as it stands as another revenue stream. If anything I could see batteries worsening in durability.

The big game changer was simply (which is huge of course) digital and the accompanying elements. The next 10 years will be sub-fragments founded on this technology. Motion on top of stills, CGI on top of motion, everything will become a wireframe which will be finished with skins as needed.

Increasingly we will leave behind the physical space for capturing content invented and imagined.

We’re already on the full postmodern “Simulacre”

And so on, and so on, etc.

Yes, there is a lot of bad, but a lot of landscape photographers use is very well, so well that you won't see it. So it's hard to know what there are the most of really. It's like with any new technique, it's over used, then it becomes just another tool to get what you want.

The 15-250mm 1:1.8 is a pipe dream, it won't happen before some new ways of manipulating light is discovered :P When I talk about the dream lens I usually say 10-300mm 1:1.4 :P Same thing applies of course :)

How photography will continue to change is impossible to know, but I'm sure it will be good. And lots of the old ways (already old now and old in the future) will remain as well.