Splinterlands to me means many things, but I think most importantly I see it as hope and change.
I mean the game itself is amazing; anyone can pick it up and have fun with it, but on a deeper level, its building a platform, community, and economy that can (and I believe will) help shape the future for everyone.
For example, take sps staking and governance for example, we have this amazing decentralized system where we can guide the future of a project, not only just share in the profits. When you have a system in place like that, maybe it becomes reasonable to experiment a little with how things are managed or done, and that's how we can find new ways or better solutions to problems. Through experimentation and stuff like that, we could take what works and directly apply those new types of governance, management or what have you to anything else. We could experiment with new types of governments in game and then translate that to actual cities/states. The opportunities seem solely limited by what we want to do as a community. Many people might just see a game where you can make some money, but I see an emerging new world where we the people finally realize their would be no "product" without them and hope and believe it will lead to widespread social revolutions that will effect more than just the gaming industry, or finance, but everything.