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Imagine it's 5 years from now. How will you define social media, work, education, income, the creative arts? We are going to answer that, but first, lets watch this 8 second video intro I made using After Effects.

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MEANING IS NOT IN WORDS.

IT'S IN BETWEEN THEM.

I have been experimenting with different content models on Steemit.

One content model I wanted to try on Medium.com is Jack Kerouac's "spontaneous prose."

I will try it now on Steemit instead.

Medium.com does not provide incentive for writers, due to one illusive problem it could never hack.

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"How do you compensate writers, on a platform that favors quality content but opposes the use of ads?"

ANSWER:

Put it on the Blockchain, tie contributors in as investors, and complicated-whitepaper-the-fuck-out-of-it.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, make it work.

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You can tell by the payout structure I chose for this post, I 100% support what Steemit is trying to do, and here is why:

In the words of Scott Adams, "the following is a thought experiment,"

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THIS IS THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN NOW
A drone lands on your doorstep, flies away, and leaves a shipment from Amazon. An alarm-clock wakes you, raises the temperature on the thermostat, reorganizes files across all your devices, opens your garage, turns your stove on, reads your emails aloud, and then summarizes your agenda for the day. This is the Internet of Things (IoT) and merging it with code that can learn and make decisions is the current frontier in technology, and as James Barrat argues, it may also be the final invention of the human race.

The stock market had to create a specific name for the overnight-success tech IPO billionaire, “unicorns.” Crowdfunding is the rawest form of market validation. Industries emerging, like smart textiles, machine learning, hologram design, and intelligent voice recognition are innovative, and they are undoubtedly impacting how creators produce content.

Acclaimed novelist and poet, Amy Stewart, admitted to writing her last four books primarily using Google Docs voice recognition dictation tool. Microsoft Skype Translator learns as it listens, through A.I. intelligence based transcription of live calls, then superimposes captions on video chats to hack language barriers in conversation. This is the world you live in right now.

Now, imagine you are tech savvy.

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You understand aesthetic design. You know C++, SWIFT, iMacros, Python, php, Ruby, Angular2, Fortran, and UNITY code to design holograms and augmented reality. You have a thorough understanding of Hadoop, SaaS, quantum cloud computing architecture, TensorFlow, the Google Deep Mind algorithm, BluePrism, and robotic process automation. You absolutely understand blockchain technology, mining, and can even create your own crypto-currency and orchestrate a successful ICO roll out.

You are the master of your own fate, capable of picking yourself up by your own bootstraps literally using Bootstrap.

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Now imagine you don't know any of that but have open source tools available to do it anyway.

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Decentralization naturally draws you in.

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Pursuing a new definition of wealth, economy, and work-life balance, naturally draws you in.

But with these new powerful open source resources at your disposal, you don't envision independence and prosperity just for yourself.

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You want to disrupt inequality.

Now let's go 5 years into the future.

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Imagine you have decentralized super computing power at your finger tips virtually free.

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You can still access every book that has ever been written for free through a Tor browser, nothing has changed there, but now you're immersed in big data analysis of the most valuable information downloaded directly to your retina display lenses, or you can just watch the game.

Imagine there is no need for civil suits, litigation fees, access to startup capital, or barriers to market entry, because contracts are self executing.