How one thought the future is good
What one likes most about is "we can identify what people are contributing to an enterprise". It doesn't necessary be a conglomerate, but assume you're in a project, you can calculate their contribution not just via github pushes for example, but reviewed code to signify how strong is their contribution, whether their contribution make a difference (its importance), etc etc that gives value to people.
It gives you not only the freedom to choose what you want to work with, but not having to comply to a hierarchical manager micromanaging you, etc. If you're in a good workplace, fine. If you're in a bad workplace, one almost certain you will benefit (unless you love being beaten up) from this change.
And in the future, the most important thing is capital, and by capital one don't just mean knowledge capital, but other capital as well, though they're more abstract. Let's see some of them:
Capital
Knowledge capital is the major here, allowing you to contribute to the work. By learning lots of things, you allow yourself to contribute in lots of aspect. You're a working game designer but are bored of it and want to move to machine learning builder (i.e. people call ML engineer, but I don't like the term "engineer", for personal reasons), but you don't have previous experience to get yourself hired? Don't worry, learn the stuff and contribute right away. Don't hassle with trying to pass the interview or whatever. Someone will review whether your code matters and how much it matters.
On the contrary, if you're someone who aced the interviews, whom pass tests, but really lazy at contributing, or decide you would only contribute in the minimal required fashion, you're in big trouble in this world. Survival of the fittest. If you cannot make yourself "fit enough", you can't survive in this field. One suggests you change yourself or your attitude towards how to work now, for smoother transfer when the time came.
And on other capital, one means social capital, etc. Since token exchange could be between friends (probably with real value, perhaps just tokens that are like souvenirs you buy for your friends, which you buy so it has some monetary value), social capital might be important as well.
And many more one won't discuss here.
It's a beautiful world ahead of us. We won't know what really lies ahead of us; overall, we're just following the path of evolution, for the better or for the worse. We will know when it's finally in place, and continue our road of evolution towards the better.
Thank you for reading.