Digital photography

Absolutely. I was reading the stuff about streetview the other night and it made me think of Man Ray. I can't remember what he called them, but he used to take photographs at random without framing or composing the image, and he came to many of his photographic discoveries (such as rayographs) by accident as a result of experimentation. I reckon he would have loved streetview as an innovation, especially when it produces weird effects. I definitely don't think he'd agree with this:

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.

Surely streetview is the ultimate "unconcerned, but not indifferent"?