I think film will be with us for a LONG time yet.

We might see consumer-level 35mm films and 110 instamatics and Polaroids disappear, but hobbyists and professionals will be using film for a long time yet.

I've got a second uncle, Lee Friedlander who's a fanatic pro photographer. I doubt he'd even consider trying digital. He has a whole lifetime of techniques that are 35mm specific.

Someday there will be as great a body of technique around digital photograpy, and then 35mm will be as rare as 8 x 10 plates are today.