Sounds terrible, but the blockchain is actually a step in that direction. The steem blockchain offers no privacy. I remember being quite surprised when I registered to see so many people talking about verifying your account, demonstrating that it's you with a selfie and text and using your real name. I came with the expectation that the cryptocurrency folk would be much more sensitive to giving up their own privacy, but surprisingly they weren't. As technology all around us is developing, having privacy is getting harder and harder and the steem blockchain is actually drilling us to learn to give it up.
I'm not trying to criticize blockchain technology or steem, I'm just pointing out one of the side effect I'm personally not a huge fan of.