Here is an example of what I was talking about before: an obsolete industry that might have adapted the new technology but did not. I will grant, it is a little difficult to see what role Kodak might have played in digital photography. But they might have done something rather than simply standing by paralyzed in the face of certain demise.
See: Photos of Film’s Demise: Empty Labs and Demolition Days Are Analog’s Farewell http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/11/robert-burley-disappearance-of-darkness/ - Jed