50 Photographers of Tomorrow and the State of Photography Today

In a recent article from Guardian Unlimited titled "Movers and Fakers" the author questions todays photographic reality of everyone being a photographer and asks where the room is for the professionals anymore? They wonder if the ability to have a camera everywhere and to take a picture of any event is going to erode the role of the professional. The simple answer is of course yes. My ability to take an acceptable picture with my cell phone will of course take away from the role of a photo journalist given the immediacy of my access to not only take the photo but to actually send the photo to a news source within seconds of the capture.
The fact remains however that the professional will always have the experiential, talent and access to equipment that none of us amateurs ever will. I may consider myself a photographer in the making but I will never have the resources to spend tens of thousands of dollars on camera equipment, computers and printers like someone who does it for a living must.
An interesting book by William A. Ewing, Nathalie Herschdorfer and Jean-Christophe Blaser titled reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow is not yet available from Thames and Hudson but is previewed by their website through the link above.