Once enough people have a token of value in their possession, it's only a matter of time before these token start being used in the real world. I believe this process will happen gradually and then very quickly.

I believe so too... for now I'm selling steam games for SBD and I sold to 3 users already!! and there are actually people who do things like these, selling their service for STEEM.

But I send my earnings to an exchange to use them (I convert to Bitcoin mostly).. I'm hoping waiting for the time where I can use them directly!!