Can Steemit or any decentralized open source platforms create that one or group of people that will hit a new intellectual milleiu. Nowadays we just anadectotally recycle and regurgatate the same ideas from 19th century French thinkers.
I know the possibility exist. The ingredients to create such a scenario exists, so much analysis and breakthroughs may come in the future. I'm just glad I'm part of its vastness.