Film is dead, long live film.
There is no doubt that digital photography has killed film for the majority of people, making it really a niche for those wanting to do something different from the pack or create a certain look. There are areas that digital technology needs to improve though. Many people right now seem to be focused on the ability to capture images without noise in low light and manufacturers are obliging us by placing a lot of their engineering towards that. For me personally I wish they would more directly address dynamic range instead of as a side effect of this noiseless pursuit. What I mean is that with the chemical process of film it behaves differently around highlights and shadows. Specifically film allows you to expose a scene with dark shadows and highlights without clipping the highlights into just pure white. This happens because of films non linear response to exposure.
The image here is a comparison of a film capture with Ektar 100 and my Pentax K-7. What you can’t see is the fact that I needed to under expose the digital capture to preserve the highlights and then adjust the image post capture to try and brighten it overall, none of this was necessary with the film. While I recognize that the sensor on my K-7 has a dynamic range of around 11 stops and newer models have improved on this they still behave in a linear way and clip highlights while the film trails off it’s response still recording detail far furthur into over exposure.