There is sometimes an advantage to being old... From 1950 through 2020, Photokina (the international photo fair) was held in Cologne, Germany. Every photographic and optical supplier introduced new technology there. In October 1981, Sony showed publicly an image sensor & LCD screen. Crude, pixilated, and limited to a black image on a gold background, the tiny LCD screen was framed like a work of art. Not very impressive. But, behind closed doors, Sony showed the prototype Mavica handheld still camera. Color images, ten frames per second, built in removable storage (3.5" floppy disk), interchangeable lenses, and a digital photo printer - all the elements of a future camera system were present in rudimentary form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I was at Photokina 1981, and asked executives of Eastman Kodak, the largest company in the imaging business, what they thought of the Sony presentation. "A grainy black & white image with a few thousand pixels of resolution is useless. Our 35mm Kodachrome color slide film (ISO25) has the equivalent of over one million pixels of resolution in full color. No electronic sensor will ever match it." Moving forward 51 years, Sony is the largest supplier of image sensors for all formats: mobile phones, commercial imaging, TV, DSLR, mirrorless, compacts cameras, and medical imaging. And, Sony owns key patents that are used in everyone else's products. As before, I think it makes sense to listen to Sony and not those who rely on legacy products.

Yep. Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke were there first. In the movie "2001 - A Space Odyssey" (1968), the ancient alien monolith that points the way to the future of mankind in found in the soil of Clavius crater. The search at Clavius was begun when an anomaly worth investigating was found. Mere coincidence. HAL9000 can't say.