Todays photography is digital plus computer graphics, which brings incredible capability. Its computational photography.
This gives people the power to create. The future looks to be one of turning the complex physical parts of a camera into software and algorithms making computational photography more of a data-crunching problem.
If photography has changed in terms of faster, better cameras, new processes and workflows, improved storage mechanisms — but it has yet to fundamentally re-think the actual picture. Classical photography assumes a fixed perspective ---photographers freeze a moment, and do so with particular intentions since the focus, the depth of field, the composition all serve a careful purpose.
What the classical picture didn't allow the viewer was multiply perspectives within a single picture. The single perspective was that of the photographer.
The assumption of the realist tradition in classical photography was a Cartesian one. The 'Cartesian' tradition in Western philosophy has generally come to stand for a search for certain and objective knowledge through the exercise of scientific reason; for a disinterested and rational method of enquiry untainted by the feelings and subjectivity of the observer. The attainment of certain knowledge by an abstract reason exercised by a 'disembodied' mind is the 'Cartesian dream'.