> When trying to predict the future, you should never look at the state of a technology today, but the trend of how it is growing or maturing over time. That's

> When trying to predict the future, you should never look at the state of a technology today, but the trend of how it is growing or maturing over time. That's always an important principle to remember, and I always try to bring it up myself even in discussions about overpopulation. These days I'm actually even more excited about all the "Bitcoin-like" protocols popping out, and new research being done for all sorts of crazy distributed applications, that couldn't have been done before Bitcoin. Bitcoin is kind of like the Gopher protocol of the Internet. There's so much more stuff and bigger stuff that's going to appear over the next few years or decade. It's still very early days for these technologies and for the full decentralization of trust.