With the advent of the paperless office, the increasing ubiquity of screens, and the steady progress in 3D rendering performance – there will soon be little need for 2D map projections. We just render the Earth as a sphere and do some perspective projection.
Yes, but 3D perspective projection is what our eyes do anyway, so there are no unnatural distortions. Paintings and video games use it to create realistic images of 3D space.
