Great link! I love these 'predict the future' essays - particularly when they're so old and so we have the wonderful benefit of hindsight.
I found the predictions of finer grain and increased tonality are just like current wishes of 'more megapixels and lower noise'.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Oh - and didn't photographers talk so much more eloqently and philosophically in 1944? :P