So, I have been cloistered the last 24 hours in the Amigo Hotel, where several steemfestians have set up camp for now. Mostly fellow hobos, although unlike me they mostly like to say "Digital nomads"
Well, we are all hobos, hobo is the name for the resourceful, work seeking misfits who searched for work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wandering about, walking, biking, jumping trains and sometimes traveling by working on boats to other places.
I have, despite my sadly depleted vote power, been doing a lot of reading and curating today, because I am really not up to much else now, and I have to rest 5 minutes every time I ascend to my room at the top of the hotel.
I don't know exactly in which way the criteria of those who came to SteemFEST differs from the gen pop of Steem, but I can't help feeling it is mostly random and that all the people I met are representative of you all out there who couldn't come.
The Convergence
Since I am not sure when, but a long time before I started to give it a name sometime late last year, I have had this idea that the "good people" would eventually gather, connect and form the kernel of a new, post-terrestrial society.
I don't believe Joe Public out there could cope with much more than the info sphere we already have...
But then, 50 billion connected people???
It takes certain characteristics, that are uncommon.
Those who possess this are thick in our midst.
We can't stop here! This is Whale country!
Loki was born in Australia, now is wandering Amsterdam again after 9 months in Sofia, Bulgaria. IT generalist, physics theorist, futurist and cyber-agorist. Loki's life mission is to establish a secure, distributed layer atop the internet, and enable space migration, preferably while living in a beautiful mountain house somewhere with a good woman, and lots of farm animals and gardens, where he can also go hunting and camping.
I'm a thoughtocaster, a conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler. I've flipped more lids than a monkey in a soup kitchen, of the mind. - Xavier, Renegade Angel
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