SteemIOT: Let THINGS Blog! They won't lie...
There is broad consensus that the few magic boldfaced words below summarize the top innovation trends on our planet in the year 2016:
Blockchains, Drones, Internet Of Things, Wearables, Augmented/Virtual Reality, 3D Printing, Autonomous Robots.
Those who will manage to blend cleverly such trends will probably dominate (and disrupt) the world :-)
Now, Steemit is obviously leveraging the blockchain concept, and I have a gut feeling that it has the potential to blend nicely a number (if not all) of the above trends.
The conceptual blend that I want to put forward today is Steemit vs IoT. What if a fraction of Steemit posts were created by robots collecting live data feeds from networks of environmental sensors, webcams, etc?
I am talking about VALUABLE data feeds, not some sort of automatic spam...We all know that spam gets downvoted on Steemit, while value is rewarded.
Decentralized sensor networks, where citizens own and maintain individual sensors, might become the most efficient and trusted source of environmental information in the future.
Imagine a large-scale environmental disaster, with chemical/nuclear pollution hazards...Would you trust more the official pollution data communicated by your government, or, rather, aggregate, real-time data from a network of citizen-owned, censorship-resistant sensors? :-)
To get a feeling for the kind of feeds and technologies that I am talking about, have a look at Thingspeak .
Introducing live feeds into Steemit might require some additional thinking with regard to the upvoting mechanism... Should premium feeds be only available to upvoters, i.e. an upvote-per-view model instead of the classic pay-per-view? Or, is this against the spirit of Steemit? Or something else?
Thanks for your comments.
really interesting idea. I think you are right about the sensor data being really useful and valuable to the network.
I don't feel like an "upvote-per-view" model would be good for steemit though. I wonder what other types of incentive models we could create.
Of course one could simply rely on the idea that if it's good, it gets voted...My worry is that this is perhaps too simple in order to attract high-quality, breaking news kind of content, e.g. live video feeds from places where something important is happening...Clearly I am assuming that Steemit would want to integrate this type of content, which is perhaps controversial per se.
My weather station is ready to join the blockchain-iot-sensor-army :)
Cool!
Ha, double cool. :)
I was thinking steemiot meant something totally different.
LOL!
@jsteck what do you mean by totally different?
It's IoT!!! let me mull this over...steemiot....oh I see why that joke flew over our head.