By Christmas time next year I see Steemit doubling its active user base. A lot would have been fueled from the prospect of free speech and great content from a myriad of different kinds of platform and apps like Esteem, Zappl, dTube, Steepshot that mirror popular social apps used today and further development and freedom provided by the steemit system creates other apps like SnapSteem, dating app HookSteem, game likes Steemfishies (cryptokitties) and SteemCity (SimCity)
Interactions and votes from all of these different platforms earn and vest people with Steem, Steempower and SBD. Its value would be at 500% at what it is today because constant development able to accomodate the explosive growth of the community. Speed of transaction would be 1 second and transaction fees almost zero.
As Steemit becomes the preferred platform of writers, artists, musicians and other creative people we will attract the likes of George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, Murakami, Ernest Cline who would have created sprawling communities of their fans. We get first looks at excerpts and tidbits from these authors.
Multi platform performers like Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Jimmy Kimmel would use dTube as one of their primary means of airing their episodes.
Musicians like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and the likes would be using Steemit to publish their music and aside from upvoting you will have the choice to buy their music and download it.
Similiarly visual artists, comic artists and webtoon art creators can have their work paid in either Steem or SBD thus creating a robust economical market.
We will also adopt a good karma system ( I know I ripped it out of Reddit and brown nosing good-karma here hahha) whereas each user can follow and choose to give a good karma point to another user only once which will increase their Reputation but cannot be converted to Steem or SBD even if the user decides to power down.
The possibilities are endless with Steemit and we will continue to grow, adapt newer technologies and increase the efficiency of the chain.