Thoughts on the future.

I like to stay up on technology as much as I can. It's just something that's always interested and fascinated me. It definitely played a part in me wanting to be an illustrator. I think one of the reasons Steem really excites me is because I feel like I'm a part of some bleeding edge technology. It's got it's hiccups along the way, but that's to be expected with anything new.

When I combine a lot of the bleeding edge tech that's just really getting started now, there will be a lot of amazing things in the near future. I'll try my best to paint you a picture of what I'm talking about.

One company I've been following for a while now is OTOY. They create my favorite rendering engine Octane Render. They also have created their own token on the Ethereum blockchain called RNDR. The purpose of this token is similar to Golem if you're familiar with that, but it's only for GPU rendering. If you're not familiar with Golem, basically RNDR is a token that you'll get rewarded for renting out the processing power of your GPU's. This will ultimately make it possible to have a huge decentralized GPU render farm.

Fast forwarding that tech about a decade in the future and I could see GPU rendering being something that you buy as a service instead of trying to buy all the hardware for your personal PC. The games and virtual experiences of tomorrow will be too complex and too computationally expensive for you to run them on your local machine, so you'll just need to plug into a network and you can buy the ULTRA HD plan for your GPU rendering for $80 a month.

With the next generation of internet speed and 5G, you'll just be able to stream the graphics that are being processed remotely with imperceptible lag. This will make virtual vacations and VR extremely valuable as real time path tracing(photoreal 3D rendering) becomes commonplace.

So when we're in these virtual worlds will we be spending fiat? Hell no, we'll be spending crypto! Not only will all these worlds have their own tokens, but a lot of people will have their own tokens. Everyone who is trying to sell something to anyone will have their own token. It allows you to cut out all middle men, and connect directly with your customers, supporters, patrons, whatever.

I can see a decentralized virtual world that has it's own currency that no human is in charge of or has power over. An autonomous entity will be able to earn and distribute funds based on rules and structures programmed into it.

The days are numbered for large centralized institutions. The tech is here and there only need to be a few successful applications and that will trigger the explosion of innovation. It's already happening. Slowly but surely it will continue to infect every facet of our lives. Things are going to become easier, more intuitive, more useful, more valuable.

In previous posts I've talked about the scary side of technological advancement and innovation, but this isn't one of those posts. Today I'm excited about the future, and I just hope we'll be relevant in the new world to come.

What are your thoughts on where the future of technology is going?