This is indeed a good analogy.
However, the future is not a boat, in this analogy it would be a space ship or something, that doesn't need an anchor.
Basically bitcoin is going to become the thing that nations settle debts with. Which will be great... as an anchor. However, just like nations, its days are numbered.
"Money" is very one dimensional. It supposedly measures work/effort, and stores it for future trade. But there are so many other dimensions that really need a "money".
Put that together with smart contracts, and the future looks a lot different.
Its like f-c-book and ThemTube, we are currently looking for another place to run to. But, in the future, that place will be our own servers, with a world wide, unstoppable, unblockable interconnects.
i believe this too. I may be wrong on steem, but one of its competitors is the real prize. Bitcoins literally was only made to be a proof of concept for what was meant to be the backbone for smart contracts(blockchain). People always call me crazy but you can literally look up the date that Szabo first wrote about smart contracts and it actually predates his writings on blockchain.
Bitcoin is great, but thats all it was ever meant to be was a proof of concept, just like with steemit, eventually we will all have to move on, if we want the dream to become reality
Sounds awesome!