Wonder how people are looking at this article now as almost a year has past since its post?
I think the future of Steem is in the hand of the public. It has to be made accessible for young to old. Like Facebook has become, first only millennials were using Facebook, now even grandmothers are using it. I didn´t knew about Steem until I was getting interest in crypto currency, this shouldn´t be the case. Maybe further development and time will make this happen.