[D-fendr]

True, but partial.

People cannot do the same things with film that they could before.

Film has become more immune to variations in exposure and processing - and therefore less possible for the "people" to vary their results.

As for digital cameras - forget it. Unless the subject is motionless, the quality of image is far below that of photography decades ago.

[Valin]

Film has become more immune to variations in exposure and processing

True. If I'm not mistaken (I'm speaking here B/W which is what I love to do) the newer films are thin emulsion. Meaning you can't really make use of all the zone system offers.
As for digital for better or worse it is the wave of the future. What gets me excited about this new chip is they put one on a film holder and made an image. Now I'm a large format guy so the idea of being able to get my wista out again causes my heart to go pitter patter.