Great Read! Thank you!
I really wish there were more things that would use current natural reactions people have to move towards a better state of the world. The knowledge and tech has been around, but unfortunatly it's typically used to further corporate profit or political power (Do it for the Children! *sigh/facepalm).
Knowing that people typically 'follow the path of least resistance,' I'd love to see more incentive systems, such as steemits, be used to actually make things better for the whole.
Anyway thanks again for the well thought out and presented article!
Thank you. I think we will see a lot more in the medium to long term. It takes long for one project to appear and capture the imagination of entrepreneurs, intellectuals, etc(see bitcoin as example) and for really new ideas to get validated, but then, all of a sudden things become obvious and people start moving that direction as though they somehow knew it all along. As this approach matures, I suspect it will lend itself to countless seemingly unsolvable scenarios.
In any case, the world seems to be improving at an astounding rate and we will soon come up with increasingly effective solutions to problems we have been facing ever since the dawn of civilization. Interesting world we love in.