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RE: Changing values into the distance
A good analogy of where we are in the life cycle of steem is the development of the original steam engine.
Initially they blew up and killed people regularly until someone devised a regulator to control the steam pressure.
This innovation came about decades after the first real world use cases for the engine...to pump water out of mines.
It was over a century later that a bright fellow considered putting a steam engine on wheels and created the first locomotive.
I wrote this post almost a decade ago.
Read thisit is as accurate today as the day I wrote it.
You are spot on. We have no clue where this block chain tech can go but it sure is fun trying to figure it all out.
Taken from your article
I read of a tribe (I think it was in south america) who labored in the fields dragging things, while their children played with toys made for them that had wheels.
I love the guessing game of it and while I am far from genius, who knows what a genius could do with the right vein of thought. I feel that the thing that Steem misses the most is imagination about what the future could hold.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, it seemed very quiet around this post :D
It just takes that spark of inspiration to take us in a different direction. Love this example you mentioned.
Isn't it amazing how we can often miss what is right in front of us. Someday one of us is going to figure out just what kind of 'wheels' we need for steem.
The blogging platforms etc all work fine and the current use cases for steem are still ploughing that particular furrow.
I want to be around when we find those wheels. Tech moves much faster these days thanks to the web and the connectivity of many minds. We will get there.
I believe this and I think that many of the components are already here and somewhat operational, just not being well attended at this point. Children playing.
The first mobile phone I used doesn't seem all that long ago to me, though it is near 3 decades. it is hard to understand this time frame as a 20 year old perhaps as it seems an eternity and going forward takes longer than looking back.
Exactly right.
Sir Isaac Newton.
Imagine the trouble that Newton ran into? 👍😋
The theory held true for a very long time until Einstein tweaked it to include time.