I read a passage in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson that made me think of Steemit.
...And a few short weeks ago, his tenure as a pizza deliverer--the only pointless dead-end job he really enjoys--came to an end. Since then, he's been putting a lot more emphasis on his auxiliary emergency backup job: freelance stringer for the CIC, the Central Intelligence Corporation of Langley, Virginia. The business is a simple one. Hiro gets information...He uploads it to the CIC database...Millions of other CIC stringers are uploading millions of other fragments at the same time...if [the CIC's clients] find a use for something that Hiro put into it, Hiro gets paid.
In Stephenson's dystopian future world, the database storing all the information collected by stringers is centralized. But, when something in the database is used, the person who posted that data is paid. This made me see this as a prediction of sorts for platforms like Steemit. The difference here is that content is curated by choice through a voting process. What's funny is that Stephenson even relates the struggle of making a post only to find it lost into the abyss.
...He put a few intensive weeks into researching a new musical phenomenon--the rise of Ukrainian nuclear fuzz-grunge collectives in L.A. He has planted exhaustive notes on this trend in the Library, including video and audio. Not one single record label, agent, or rock critic has bothered to access it.
I just started this book recently, I'm less than fifty pages in. I thought it was cool that the things I'm reading as speculative sci-fi in the book are seemingly coming to be in the present day. Have you read any sci-fi that predicts Steemit or other new technologies trending today?