The future is imminent and built on blockchain

When I first started on steemit about 13 months ago, it was worth $0.40. Recently it stood at $0.10. And there have been those in years gone by that saw it at $4.00. And all the variations in between. Well in future steemit (which is different from steem in that it is the platform) will host more Dapps and services so the token – steem - will regain its former value in dollar terms. We will have petaflops per second of data, football field size racks and racks of servers. Maybe some nice mining rigs, wait, do we even mine steem? Anyway mining of mineable tokens will go on. (Long live Bitcoin.) And that is how the future looks potentially...

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The future looks quite different from today. “The same but different.” That about sums up all of reality too. I could put it on a T-shirt and then put on the T-shirt and have the conclusion to life, the universe and everything as my meme. And in this new age, our collective new world reordered, we will have Tesla’s electric cars. That’s a gift from the past if ever there was one. We have had electric vehicles for 100 years already but they were shelved mostly to profit the oil barons who cared little about poisoning the world. We will have 3D printed clothes and food and body parts, so all will be fixable in the future. Except sanity. That will not be fixable by AI or an algorithmic bot responding to your speech patterns. Real life therapists will still be counselling humanity as it loses touch with its humanity, or perhaps its sanity.

We may have less water and species variation but we will have bottled oxygen to make up for the loss of the original thanks to a tipping point that occurred a while before anyone found the political will to end fossil fuels the way they ended lead piping and teeth fillings. Hindsight leaves such a mass of death in its path, the path we took to learn the lessons we know today, and will know in the future, which is just another today... but in the future.

We have borrowed from our future, as an economy on the planet, borrowed their money to pay for our foolishness. Actually not foolishness because it was engineered by the 0.1% to fleece the rest of us via their model of capitalism, Keynes or post-Keynes Austrian School. Crony capitalism, along with fascist totalitarianism aka communism, has stolen from the future to fund the ponzi of the present for the profit of the few at the expense of the many. What a slave species we seem to be, and we can’t even see our prison walls. We can’t see how our brains are being engineered for consent from childhood at school, all the way up to corporatism or stateism. Is there even such a word?

Anyway, the future is bright with Bitcoin and particularly with Blockchain technology, perhaps more than Bitcoin. And digital currency issued by the state and the central banks will replace fiat paper money once known as cash. That future will also have the built in device from which to trade. Actually the smart phone will become a built-in device, hands free, implanted so that one can have one’s smart device seemlessly integrated via the “neuralink” interface. This will allow you to be hooked up to the IoT, the interconnectedness of all AI things, including your brain. And it will run on 5G, followed by 6G and of course 7G in time to come, all the time with smaller and smaller frequency waves running through the air invisibly around us and through us. What an interconnected world it will be. And a public one – no privacy left, not even in your own thoughts in your own head. Cameras and neuralinks will read your every act...and thought, in time.

Well, at least we will have supersonic flight, rail and general transport. EU to Australia in an hour or two, for example. Free from fossil fuels if I have my way. Power is not the problem – Tesla (the original one) proved that over 100 years ago. It’s the sharing of that power with the masses without hoarding profit that is important. And ideally necessity facilitates the eventual sharing of that power which is so freely available via renewables, or something even more dynamic that has not been revealed to all of us yet.

As far as finance goes, UBI (universal basic income) may emerge across the board. Also new jobs in cyberspace will arrive – paid to play anyone? And cryptocurrencies will emerge that share the profits fairly in a company. With blockchain we can now use the distributed ledger to create smart contracts that are streamlined and customized to facilitate the healthy world that we envision, one of fairness, and justice for all. Clean air, clean water and clean money, that’s the world I aim for in the future. Welcome to my world, welcome to yours.