the state of the starship, with ned at the bridge.

it was highly entertaining and some what random to see that @ned now had a streaming setup for a show called 'the bridge' -- i really liked it and if there is one thing about having half of the steves (yes, i've always seen the steem blockchain like an apple founding story) it's that we are incredibly lucky to have one of the original founding team still here and still being very mystical and illusive years after the ship has left the boat yard.

maybe that's what makes the steem blockchain so interesting, this rag tag, rebel inspired, be who you wanna be ledger that keeps on going because of sheer power of will -- to want to enable and empower change in the way the internet is used, to open up this big canvas yurt style door in the middle of a snow storm as invite you into it's warmth.

if there is one thing about ned i've never been able to put my finger on is that i don't think even in the times i've met him or even when i asked him questions at steemfest 2 that i ever met ned yet (zed's dead baby) like, who is ned, could ned actually be projection? i mean as far as startups go it's pretty rare to have looks and brains and then just randomly fire up a live stream like that for what felt like the first time unguarded and comfortable with spur of the moment, a live AMA open like that knowing that especially youtube can be a toxic minefield, it was, surprising.

of course now i have so many questions and so many thoughts and also a handful of suggestions in the bargain because you know, that's how my brain operates -- i'm a little like 'data' in the way my parellel processors need to fire off and compute some outcomes, things like.

.. how long has ned been able to play guitar?
.. is the bridge going to be a regular show?
.. does the bridge stand for the one in star trek and is ned our riker?
.. is destiny an amagulamated starfleet frontend for the blockchain galaxy?
. .and is the hivemind borg powered?

so many thoughts, so many questions, so many potential outcomes!

i think that's one of the strengths of this social blockchain, it's like we have access now (and it's getting better and bigger all the time) to every facet of the system, the dev reports, the dapps, the teams, the content makers, it's all spread out into 'activated' camps, we all appear to have a part, a roll in this decentralized land which from previous centralized platforms felt barren and formular based to just drive views and ad revenue -- this place can be anything you want it to be and now we are in the third trimestor of birthing, the sustained and sustainablity phase of the chain.

we need things to pay for itself and hey, it's ok to turn a profit too, i guess that's what time does when you've been around as a business, you look around and see the mistakes or the time periods of platforms that sold out when the time was right, that got swallowed up and you dipped out at the right moment and took a chunk of money in the process.

the true is things cost, you have to pay people for their time, ned's not gonna just keep pumping his own steem into steemit inc without building something that's gonna generate some income so that it can just tick along, i'm sure he knows quite clearly how much money is needed to take all this to the next level, to make it pay, to make sure that value of earning real world money can be turned back into effort, into a token, into a self generating eco system of people who want to maintain something, like little motivated emitters of change.

i can feel that poly-phasic change happening here on the blockchain, one hundred people at steemfest 1, three hundred or more at steemfest 2, maybe a dip this year because of the price of steem or maybe it was the same as sf1, either way, it's a living breathing, adapting network of noded people, all doing their interconnected parts, generating their own real world assets to keep their value maintained in the chain.

anyway, going off base.

my whole point of writing this is that i'm excited again about streaming video, not that i was not excited about it already because i truly believe that video, done right, and with the right kind of backing and minds coming together on it can be a big player in the real time on demand ecosystem of blockchain technology -- and nobody is doing it, maybe steem could be the one to do it, maybe this is what ned wants to do with 'the bridge' -- i certainly have a million neurons firing with ideas around.

(at this very moment i'm thinking it very much styled in a kind of cross over between sci-fi and ocean's eleven cinematogy styling) with all the main players and their own involvement in the project, i don't think anyone has really done a big global sustained video project like that, it's probably because logistically it could be a massive undertaken -- nobody has really done decentralized collobration yet on that kinda scale.

so why am i saying this, projecting this idea? well, for me that whole expression of 'the bridge' while it might only be something as simply as a fly on the wall live stream -- done weekly/fortnightly to do a bit of AMA outreach while they ramp up GIT pushes to keep on track for SMT's etc and that's great, i think it feels like it could be so much more, and my hope is that there is so much more behind it.

i love the fact that they had two angles, that second shot made all the difference from making that simple show static and it means they can expand on that setup as well, i'd love to see what they do with it and i'm wondering if it's a static setup or that it has to be deployed each time? i'm hoping it's static and it allows ned and the team to just 'get streaming' quickly.

in some ways, this feels like pseudo tv all over again, don't ask me why maybe it's just a harking back to the good old days of early internet streaming when we had realplayer helix producer terrible live streams at a very small video size and pretty terrible audio (let alone poor network performance) -- it was pure, it was authentic and it was a desire to make it work and one of the many reasons why i made one of my peers the eccentric some what seen as a visionary in some circles josh harris.

man, if josh had blockchain at that time the world could have been a completely different video decentralized place already, maybe it's time for it to happen again, maybe the act of vlogging itself is a token economy in itself and participation is the currency of the chain, it's kinda what some of the youtube want a base to put content on, we just don't have the performance or the speed yet, but maybe that too can become a destiny?

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