Thanks for the support @steemflow, I appreciate it!

That thing about your mom cracks me up... reminds me of years back when some of the "cool kids" who were early adopters started leaving MySpace because "Eeeew, my mom's on MySpace!"

I think it will only be a matter of time before we see it... whether they will have any real value remains to be seen...

Mindfulness matters! The YouTube story is funny... and a poignant reminder that people derive authentic benefit from things in a myriad different ways.

Thank you for supporting my work; I appreciate it!

Thanks for the support; I appreciate it!

It's ironic that when people are actually being direct, others try to "read between the lines" when there are actually no hidden messages between those lines! All in all, human communication

I remember having a conversation with someone 3-4 years back about "crypto being made illegal." I submitted that it will never happen; instead crypto will be usurped by traditional business.

Thanks for the thoughtful comment! I think what often bugs me about "modern science" is that the entire nature of science and scientific inquiry has changed over the past century or so. Science

Thank you for the support; I appreciate it!

Like all things, you have to be patient; it takes time. On Hive, perhaps the simplest place is to put some HBD in the "Savings" and you'll earn 10%.

Decentralization is definitely going to be a major pathway towards the future, and I image opportunities like Hive will be particularly important in Africa, although I understand anything related to

Our in-house term for it around here is "patchwork economics." You make your life function by having small income streams — none of which are large enough individually to support you — come together

It'll happen soon in the medical field. Diagnostics computers are already more accurate at predicting "most likely" medical problems off a given set of information than doctors. We are only a

Well, based on the time I've known you via Hive, you're probably one of the best prepared individuals I've come across... and your tireless involvement in so many different projects will undoubtedly serve

There are almost always two sides to everything, and people with the "big ideas" are often blind to the downsides of their creations. Sure, the promoters of automation realize people will be

I guess the best we can do is make educated guesses, based on the direction things seem to be heading. Automation or not, I am pretty sure I will have to keep paying the bills, and that means I have to

Thank you @ninahaskin!

I hear you... but I just don't see it happening. I was at our Safeway grocery yesterday and they are remodeling... mostly removing a few more full service checkstands to expand the self-check area from

Well, it's always interesting to watch... and even though I had no liquid Hive at the moment this took off, I'm not unhappy about seeing my staked value jump over $5K in a matter of minutes. The cool thing