"Web 3.0 is bringing together our physical, digital, and biological worlds", this is the biggest leap of all. There are already signs.

I do not think The Conversation pays anything but I may be wrong, and as you said, they are very selective. If blockchain can be done right for academia, it will be a huge leap.

Thank you for the welcome messsge

I totally agree. Brave is also very fast, and tracks ad-blockers. Also, being based on Chromium, Chrome extensions are natively supported. The other thing I liked about Brave is its ability to be installed

Great. So what are some of the resources out there (and tutorials) that teach how to develop on steem? Which ones are newbie friendly?

:-), thank you @steemitboard, I am learning steemit and this is very encouraging. This is a new world, may I say. A fantastic world at that.

Here is the original paper: