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Hey my incredibly awesome steemit friends, hope you're Friday is as fantastic as you are!

I know the platform is not what it once was, but I'm super grateful so many amazing people are still pressing on. The world is changing in a big way, but as history has shown us over and over, people tend to drag their feet when it comes to big change, because change takes us out of our comfort zones, and most people do not like being uncomfortable.

Steemians however, are not most people, we are the progressive, the dreamers, the inventors, explorers and adventurers! We may be few but we are mighty!

We are only at the cusp of the digital age- and as the world evolves we need to evolve with it or get left behind.

I'm speaking from my own recent experience.

Some of you know that my hubs and I have been running a wholesale grapevine business for almost twenty years. For those who don't- basically vineyards need their crops to be trimmed from the wires and the vines removed in winter to make room for new growth. We provide that service for free in exchange for taking the vines with us to our shop where we make them into 12 inch cuttings and sell them to tree nurseries- who then replant them, grow roots, and sell them to the public.

This business has been our primary income for the entirety of our adult lives- and while we suspected there would come a day where advancements in technology would render this service obsolete, I have to admit we did not expect it to begin happening so soon. But this year our biggest nursery purchased a machine run by a computer that can turn the vines into cuttings- long story short our orders were dropped down to a quarter of what they were before.

We could have chosen to lament this loss, to rant and rave and wail at the "injustice" of it all, buttt...that's not our style.

We're solution oriented individuals, and what exactly would that solve?

So we improvise, adapt, and overcome -

-and one of the things we are doing to mitigate this loss is jumping on the YouTube bandwagon with a guerrilla style beer review:

Computers may be able to replace many things, but there is no substitute for divinely inspired human creativity.

This is just the beginning, a great learning experience, with incredible things to come- and this is where you can help us out with just a few key strokes-

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