Digital photography

I disagree. The most interesting thing (by now at least) about a photo and photography as a whole is its potential for autonomy. Thus streetview being so interesting as a contemporary medium.

That in itself is a contradiction. perspective is an intrinsically human thing no? Automate it, and that perspective vanishes. Autonomy can't take a single shot, at least not a meaningful one. It'll machine gun a location with shots, then leave it up to you to conjure up forced meaning that might have nothing to do with the original context.
I can see what you mean about autonomy very clearly, I just don't think it's some holy grail for the "medium" obsolete or contemporary.
If anything, I think we shoot too much, too fast. Redundancy in Photography is becoming a very prominent word.
Throw social media in there, and next thing you know, taking pictures will become pointless and replaced with throngs of people sitting picking out Where's Wally style pictures for the thrill of it. Trudge through facebook to get an idea of the over-consumption of pictures. Algorithms in new cameras take a picture before you've even taken a picture. All go up for the world to see.
You might be looking at it from an Artists perspective, so ignore all this shit. Studying the subject made me hate all Photographers.

Anyway, interesting doesn't always mean good. Then again, I stalk people in the street so our versions of interesting are at an impasse.