I think the evolution will parallel that of civilization in general. For a looong time, humans were doing their own thing and living in harmony with their environment, just like the early adopter/innovators, moving along slowly but too spread out to make any big changes happen quickly. Then, sometime after the last ice age, for some unknown reason, people started agriculture, moved in to cities, started using money, and created government, probably due to a combination of laziness and fear, and civilization formed.

The only problem is that civilization is like a cancer to Nature. It is inherently unsustainable because it brings psychos to the top and requires constant growth. Steemit is attempting to follow this path by luring in anyone and everyone with money, centralizing their output, then placing lots of rules upon them through bots community rules, and it will likely end up growing virally, but as it gets bigger, the people and the content they post will devolve, just like has happened with civilization.

I'd like to help create something that doesn't need rules because the people allowed to participate don't need them. I'd like them to come based upon their desire to make the world a better place by collaborating with other innovators, not because of their need for money. I'd also like the platform to be decentralized so it's impossible for power to concentrate, or for one bad apple to spoil the bunch.

The more I think about it, the less valuable I think the open source code from this project will be. It might be better to base the new network off of something like diaspora instead, or invent something original.