It's a very long time since I read the Foundation books. I used to love Asimov.
I don't think Steem will really take off until Steemit can grow to many millions of users. The next hardfork should prepare it for that as it can't really handle that many people signing up yet. I hope that will be early next year.
Saw some physical copies in a flea market and got them off real cheap :)
We'll see how it goes. Still plenty of barriers for sure, but at least half of the technical stuff has already been solved!