And it will be awesome. So we get more value out from our time we invest in the online landscape! YouTube seems to be going a little desperate how they have added ways to donate money in live streams. Just looks a bit spammy. These tokens will be a better system.
Will also be better for larger media companies to have a system like this instead of an annoying pay-wall to access content. Clearly they are also desperate and is trying to go back in time. Instead of opening up more they are building walls. Digital value transfer + Trust + Reputation + Speed = Winning Formula for changing the social media landscape.
As you say this will probably happen sooner than most realise. Especially since technology is growing with exponential growth and how this is global and with a large world population we now could easier connect the smartest minds to come up with revolutionary ideas and put them into real projects so much faster than in the past!