A Brief History of Ideas and the Big Picture for Steem
Esteemed persons,
This blockchain has the potential to become a new kind of Scientific Journal, a new kind of cultural memory, a new kind of revolution. The epistemology of human knowledge and especially the organic mathematical voting regime in Steem may be better understood should one know a history of events leading up to this revolution and the ongoing efforts to preserve knowledge today.
In addition, what if Steem becomes the next vehicle of global culture? Will it house the greatest material of the past like great libraries do today, but on hard drives and mining rigs instead of on paper in huge buildings? What happens to this material when it ages on this blockchain? Will great culture sit at 0 upvotes? In 5000 years, will there be a professional academia searching for lost blockchains on ancient hard drives in order to find lost information?
There is more value in this network than just social media. I encourage you embrace the cultural implications of Steem as a vehicle for information. I encourage innovation which includes more information on the Steem blockchain that is culturally valuable, rather than less. Even without this functionality you can make a contribution to the preservation of global culture by taking the time to download the appropriate free databases. I write again that this blockchain has the potential to become a new kind of Scientific Journal, a new kind of cultural memory, a new kind of revolution. Don't let it just be a social media for vanity. Own this culture, you have more in this platform than any other generation before you.
Somewhat related to information preservation, there should also be a mention about private messages and Steem, I don't believe they have a place within the mining or the operation of Steem. However private messages do have a place in content creation, collusion prevention, positive social change, and culture. I encourage everyone whom uses Steem, therefore, to use Bitmessage for decentralized and secure private messages, and for the dev team to implement native Bitmessage functionality into Steem in the long term. Why develop anything else when the solution already exists?
Goodbye for now!
External resources and additional information
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature - this is the oldest ancient literature in the world today, contribute to it's preservation by downloading it
Project Gutenberg
How to download a large collection of ebooks from Project Gutenberg
Google Print
Google's version of scanned literature
The Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
Internet Archive
A centralized version of something Streemit users can help preserve
Wikipedia:Database download
Decentralize the best encyclopedia in the world.
Articles related to Sci-Hub on Google News search
Please support official Scientific Journals and research if you have the means. For everyone else, there's Sci-hub.
Bitmessage - decentralized private messaging
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TL;DR: Download even just a small part of humanities knowledge if you have the hard drive space and Steem should use Bitmessage for private messaging.
You got my attention with "a new kind of Scientific Journal".
I have been working with similar concepts of late and I would like to hear more of your ideas. For example, it could be more than just journals. The funding, laboratories, bioinformatics and myriad other things can be incorporated into the blockchain. If automated experiments, funding and results were logged into the blockchain like upvotes and posts are input into Streemit, scientists could be paid automatically for what their efforts are worth and get credit for their efforts. Patents would be digital contracts and science would build upon itself utlizing what went before make advancements and pay royalties to those who went before.
I look forward to your response...
When an patentable idea is posted to the blockchain, it is provably owned and timestamped. Steem is the digital contract that science can use to build upon itself. There can be more guidelines about linking to original threads if research does start to build here though, which would create a chain of research as topics became more complex. There is currently no easy way to link posts to other posts except to just provide a link, however current citation methods in the scientific community would function well here.
The real question is not will scientist stop writing amazing grant proposals for various businesses or research institutes, as per the current system, but when will they post them to steem and start reaping in the rewards now from the people here?
The culture is admittedly not there yet; steem needs a more robust organic marketing campaign to bring in both institute dollars and scientists and a subculture of valuing real, hard research.
But it will only take one success story to start the process.
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