It's interesting how as a society, we are absolutely demanding things like cars that drive themselves and airplanes that fly themselves, so we can surf the internet, take pics, talk with people, while we "do" these things. This is why so many car manufacturers are currently developing cars that drive themselves, because we as consumers and operators are absolutely demanding it. Look left and right at any stop sign or light, usually the person is on their phone. How many people have "whipped it out" while on the road? Probably everyone and some worse than others. This is bleeding over to all sorts of other industries, but it feels like a steady march to me. People literally can not help themselves. I too believe there is likely a line of good judgement where you can take beautiful pictures above 10,000. I've seen plenty of people whip out SLRs even, but the things that are posted on the internet on approach and landing just demonstrate what I said above. People can not help themselves. No matter what the "punishment" is, people will still do things like this, which requires the design to eliminate the problem, which usually turns out to be automation and taking that responsibility away from whomever it is.

Of course, I'm talking long term, 20, 50, 100 years, but these are the forces and movements I see.