Steemit Disrupted Social Media in 2017 and Established "The New Labor Economy" | 5 Year Prediction
Imagine it's 5 years from now. How will you define social media, work, education, income, the creative arts? We are going to answer that, but first, lets watch this 8 second video intro I made using After Effects.
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MEANING IS NOT IN WORDS.
IT'S IN BETWEEN THEM.
I have been experimenting with different content models on Steemit.
One content model I wanted to try on Medium.com is Jack Kerouac's "spontaneous prose."
I will try it now on Steemit instead.
Medium.com does not provide incentive for writers, due to one illusive problem it could never hack.
"How do you compensate writers, on a platform that favors quality content but opposes the use of ads?"
ANSWER:
Put it on the Blockchain, tie contributors in as investors, and complicated-whitepaper-the-fuck-out-of-it.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, make it work.
You can tell by the payout structure I chose for this post, I 100% support what Steemit is trying to do, and here is why:
In the words of Scott Adams, "the following is a thought experiment,"
A drone lands on your doorstep, flies away, and leaves a shipment from Amazon. An alarm-clock wakes you, raises the temperature on the thermostat, reorganizes files across all your devices, opens your garage, turns your stove on, reads your emails aloud, and then summarizes your agenda for the day. This is the Internet of Things (IoT) and merging it with code that can learn and make decisions is the current frontier in technology, and as James Barrat argues, it may also be the final invention of the human race.
The stock market had to create a specific name for the overnight-success tech IPO billionaire, “unicorns.” Crowdfunding is the rawest form of market validation. Industries emerging, like smart textiles, machine learning, hologram design, and intelligent voice recognition are innovative, and they are undoubtedly impacting how creators produce content.
Acclaimed novelist and poet, Amy Stewart, admitted to writing her last four books primarily using Google Docs voice recognition dictation tool. Microsoft Skype Translator learns as it listens, through A.I. intelligence based transcription of live calls, then superimposes captions on video chats to hack language barriers in conversation. This is the world you live in right now.
Now, imagine you are tech savvy.
You understand aesthetic design. You know C++, SWIFT, iMacros, Python, php, Ruby, Angular2, Fortran, and UNITY code to design holograms and augmented reality. You have a thorough understanding of Hadoop, SaaS, quantum cloud computing architecture, TensorFlow, the Google Deep Mind algorithm, BluePrism, and robotic process automation. You absolutely understand blockchain technology, mining, and can even create your own crypto-currency and orchestrate a successful ICO roll out.
You are the master of your own fate, capable of picking yourself up by your own bootstraps literally using Bootstrap.
Now imagine you don't know any of that but have open source tools available to do it anyway.
Decentralization naturally draws you in.
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Pursuing a new definition of wealth, economy, and work-life balance, naturally draws you in.
But with these new powerful open source resources at your disposal, you don't envision independence and prosperity just for yourself.
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You want to disrupt inequality.
Now let's go 5 years into the future.
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Imagine you have decentralized super computing power at your finger tips virtually free.
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Pursuing a new definition of wealth, economy, and work-life balance, naturally draws you in.
But with these new powerful open source resources at your disposal, you don't envision independence and prosperity just for yourself.
You want to disrupt inequality.
Now let's go 5 years into the future.
Imagine you have decentralized super computing power at your finger tips virtually free.
You can still access every book that has ever been written for free through a Tor browser, nothing has changed there, but now you're immersed in big data analysis of the most valuable information downloaded directly to your retina display lenses, or you can just watch the game.
Imagine there is no need for civil suits, litigation fees, access to startup capital, or barriers to market entry, because contracts are self executing.
and every job, including software engineering is automated through super intelligent processes beyond your understanding,
INFRASTRUCTURE
FARMING
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TRANSPORTATION
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HEALTHCARE
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Income is universal, where everyone's basic needs are covered because automation creates a surplus of goods and resources, and if you want anything more than what you have, you work.
"BUT WHAT IS WORK IN THIS TIMELINE?" #MandellaEffect
Imagine a robot brings you your dinner. A robot brings you your mail. A robot brings you stock for your business. A robot tells you your daily itinerary. A robot manages your portfolio. A robot teaches your children history, physics, math, the math of physics, and the history of math. A robot drives you to work, does your work and another robot programs the robot. Imagine much more is expected of you and much less is required. What will in demand work be?
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You will provide the only services left by humans for humans, tasks requiring creativity, while teaching super intelligent Ai how to replace you in these tasks as well. Your job would not be to report the news; a robot would do that for you. Your job would be to provide an insightful opinion from a unique perspective; and while we all know, no idea is truly original, you would have the data available to know just how unoriginal you are and the rarer your creation the more valuable it would be.
Art is concentrated human effort and your job will be more art than science.
The highest paying jobs would go to strategists, writers, designers, singers, photographers and those jobs would be the final stand between humanity and Ai.
In an interview Mark Cuban had with Bloomberg, he speaks on this very subject pointing out that automation and machine learning has now given way to Ai programming where code intuitively improves itself beyond the comprehension of human software engineers. Similar can be seen with AlphaGo, Google Deep Mind's artificial intelligence research project, where Dr. Demis Hassabis and his staff created a self learning algorithm capable of defeating the master of the abstract strategy board game Go. The game's level of complexity has been described as the equivalent of four chess games going on together simultaneously on the same board. When a child in China is classified as a genius, they are taken out of formal schooling and placed in full-time Go study where they spend their entire lives mastering the game. Ke Jie was the reigning Go champion. He was defeated by Google Deep Mind's machine learning algorithm AlphaGo. The algorithm has been described, by Google, as a true self learning Ai. The code is available as open source for developers to build upon, and can be found on GitHub.
CREATIVE CAPITAL is an asset class
Creative processing is computing power and your hash rate is your cognitive capacity to produce ideas.
Most importantly, decentralized social media platforms built on blockchains like Steemit, that offer content creators genuine freedom to produce high quality uncensored content will evolve into socioeconomic ecosystems. Every individual will have a platform to explore the ethical and philosophical aspects of humanity that for so long have been pushed aside for an industrial agenda. With all basic needs met, people will be free to pursue their passions.
I have been experimenting with content models. How do you like this one? Don't be afraid to let me know your thoughts in the comment section. ENGAGE!
My name is Simon Breedon. I am the CEO of ViralMediaSolutions.com and the mind behind vmsolutionsltd on twitter and of course @vmsolutionsltd on Steemit. I would love for you to follow me here and also subscribe to my YouTube channel.
Voted up when you shared on SSpeak but only read it now. Very interesting article, I enjoyed reading it. Thanks!
Hi Simon! Very cool posts! I know what you mean about losing the love...
I figure long term this kind of content will win though!
Lots of ideas I want to write about too! I gave it a start in this post,
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@the-traveller/the-reason-why-i-want-to-build-a-platform-on-steemit-and-why-you-should-too-the-idea-economy
It would be very nice to hear your considered opinion. If all your posts are going to be like this I'd love to trade considered comment for considered comment! Which I kinda hoped was the point of steemit !
My article is here: and talks about the exponential changes that are shifting us from the knowledge economy to the idea economy. Your post fits right into that! RESTEEMING!
My plan is to figure out what is going to take to adapt and share those lessons, maybe we can make a coalition of like-minded authors would be great to have some peer review structure of ideas eventually! (Mutual upvoting can't hurt either)
We should probably setup a chat in Discord. That seems to be where the whales party (and for that very reason). Ideally Steemit will evolve to be a platform for the highest quality content on the internet and while politics will always be a part of content marketing, if Steemit or a platform like it could be a "cream always rises to the top system," where someone with virtually no followers could come on it and post an article that pushes the limits of society and the knowledge base of their own comfort zone, as opposed to just shocking and trolling with the same result, then it will truly be something epic.
The idea is that you seek out what you don't know and put enough time into objectively researching it that the result you produce and share with the community provides them priceless value and is much more efficient than if they were to research the topic themselves.
When you take one step, God takes two. If you truly push the limitations of what you know, and are capable of discovering, then the next stage would be for your work to be peer reviewed and ultimately fall into the hands of more experienced experts on your topics, who can weigh in and provide even deeper context.
Each post on Steemit can be a world all in itself. Of course there will always be cat memes, and flavor of the moment rant garbage by creators capitalizing off whaleshares and bureaucracy, but if the community shifts in a way where there is greater incentive for creators to put the best of themselves in every post than we all as a community can find the 25th hour.
The alternative is to wait until big media companies take hold and flood the feeds with their agenda driven nonsense, then the opportunity is lost. In a way, we are talking about checks and balances for uncensored, thought provoking, heavily researched, peer reviewed mental nourishment the likes of which until now has only existed on the dark web or YouTubers savvy enough to establish significant patronage on Patreon.
This could be commercially adoptable truth. People follow the money. Trust me if the incentive is high enough it could inspire even Alex Jones to act like he has some God damn sense.
I long for the day when a month on steemit could be more beneficial than a year's worth of college education.
I upvoted your post by the way, and I follow you as well.
That is really much appreciated! Looking forward to your articles!
shared you post in the upvote slack channel of Steem Blogger Central, small now but over time should grow!! contact @sflaherty or steem blogger central on Facebook
I do like the white space format you've used on this post. The content is something I've been contemplating for a while.
One thing that I wonder about regards UBI, (oh boy, random aside in post, disregard parentheses, unless you want to follow a white rabbit. In typing UBI just now, my autocompletion on my iPad just prompted a memory, "get outta my head PK Dick"; )
Back on task, sorry, anyhow about UBI, is what does society do with the "non-creatives"? Will we have "The Creative Wars"? I have no answer to the queries, but there is one thing I know... I sure enjoy the sh*t out of Steemit and could do this full time. YMMV.
Upvoted and already following. Looking forward to future posts.
SDG
Really enjoyed this post and the content model! thanks. upvoted and followed.
Thanks @brownz. I see you are posting about Politics, Technology, Economics, Science, and Gaming. All my faves, so I followed you as well.
Great post....had to share it with our crowd over at Steemit Blogger Central.
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You can post your articles and meet other Steemians on our SLACK for real time growth
I appreciate the support. Ultimately, all of us could be doing something else with our time. This is the path we chose and every bit of feedback, resteeming, upvoting, and resharing that you can do validates that very challenging and risky choice to invest in the dream we have for ourselves and not the dream others have for us.With every resteem, you empower me to create more content of this caliber. Thank you very much @sflaherty. I appreciate it more than you know.
That is why I created Steemit Blogger Central, to really give back and to help others working so hard here. Honestly as we grow in Steemit its going to be on a lot of people to push and self promote harder and harder so I figure help that area to those that drive up some great content that may get lost in the crowd. Really glad to help you where I can my friend.
I also created a SLACK chat for SBC if your interested in joining. We help each other, post our articles and connect through community in this community. I in turn take what people post in there and resteem for them on my social media pages. More or less an extra tool for everyone and your invited if you like to check it out.
If you want in just click on this link, put in your email address and await the confirmation email in your inbox, might be under the sender as BRYAN D because my buddy set this up for us. One you get it just click on the link in the email and your off to setting up your account to chat and share freely. The sign up is here if your curious:
https://sbcautoinvite.herokuapp.com/
Thanks for sharing quite a good amount of useful information, indeed. I've been referred from https://steemit.com/chainbb/@vmsolutionsltd/the-hardest-i-ever-worked-in-my-life-on-a-post-am-i-doing-something-wrong I'd recommend writing long posts in digestible chunks, one aspect at a time.
Thanks for all your effort. You are doing this job well... of media and explaining. I think much of these ideas are quite cool with much potential, yet I cannot agree with your roadmap.
This I hope is not the future. I would rather sit on a lonely bench near a lamppost and observe silent trees, green grass and noisy birds. (But like Musk I'm driven to somehow chang the world.)
My road map basically recognizes that content creators in an economy where content creation represents a majority portion of the overall labor market, due to automation, will be most powerful when thriving on decentralized uncensored media platforms. Some people when they hear universal income, they think socialism, but everyone earning their keep becomes more of a burden than a principle when it cost more for you to work than it does to just pay you to exist. If it's true that vertical solar powered farms will produce a surplus of food, someone has to eat that food, provide a large data set of feedback on its quality, and recommend that brand of food to friends. There is no need to charge excessively for the food because at a certain point it costs more to store it than it would cost to just give it away. All jobs available within the business world would be creativity based, and the only other jobs left would be sports and entertainment. Content markets, films on Netflix, Hulu, YouTube Shows, and all their decentralized block-chain backed equivalents, would be over saturated and the highest quality content would reign supreme on the highest level, with early adopters dying out as you work down the content popularity pecking order. With the multi-media content market so over-saturated, content would be better than it's ever been. Every few months would emerge like a creative Renaissance in comparison to months prior. Content consumption and creation would expand into more immersive forms, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D Binaural sound etc...
Steemit established a new labour economy, and the machine learnt to place human, a whole new generation comes!
The generation is already here. It's just like a festering zit that hasn't popped yet, but when it does, we will look at every passing year like it was the Stone Age.
De-centralization and freeing up human time will lead to many great human achievements. STEEM and crypto's are just the beginning :)
Stigmatatata from Lake Titicaca!
Really fruitful artical. Thanks for it. Followed, resteemed, upvoted.
We would like to actually use Steemit as fundraising tool to get resources for forest conservation in Cameroon. You could help us in our effort here: https://steemit.com/nature/@kedjom-keku/do-it-for-forest-upvote-comment-resteem-to-save-the-abongphen-highland-forest-in-cameroon-11usd-10x10-m-forest-saved or elsewhere here @kedjom-keku