The true value of steem is it's ability to bring zero cost transactions to the point of transaction initiation. This means that there is a very low barrier to entry that the extremely efficient and scalable blockchain tech can be put to. Then there is the fact that the communications cannot be censored nor the system easily subverted.....the rules will continue to protect the users and will only adapt in favor of a democratic consensus. Steem can provide all sorts of value....the accumulation of intellectual capital, exchange of ideas, value transmission, store of productivity, trade mechanism, etc etc and it can do it for any community or communities at whatever scale, anywhere i the world where a population has power and access to the internet. Nothing like this has ever existed and in my mind the potential is limitless. In the future, everything could be Steem powered.