Software has a long way to go. Software bundled with cameras is generally inadequate. Computer reliability and backups become serious issues once you're storing on your computer not only your work and your writing but also all your pictures. Losing pictures of your children because your disk crashed is unacceptable. Once faster Internet connections are more widely available, automated off-site backups will help a great deal.
Digital photography is still very much a hobby.
We can only hope that by then better software will have been developed and that digital printing services will be widespread and inexpensive. The SPEC Open Systems Group will hold a SPEC Benchmarking Workshop on September 13-14 in Paderborn, Germany. Tuesday's session, at Siemens in Paderborn, will focus on general benchmarking. Abstracts for papers can be submitted until July 20. You must register in advance, however.