@dwinblood
I have started thinking about this recently with the possible growth issues that steemit is beginning to face, as well as aspects of blockchain that I became educated in during the bitcoin Segwit debates.

On the one hand, technology and storage capacity continues to grow, but on the other, decentralization and blockchain utilization require and continue to require increasing amounts of storage. The more you decentralize something, the more copies are made, the more 10 fold resources of storage space are consumed. What does this mean for the future? Its good for storage device and harddrive manufacturers......but they are a centralized entity that centralizes and accumulates wealth.

Then there are thoughts about the magnifold increase in electricity consumption due to decentralizing (copying and spreading) blockchain usage. If a blockchain is 10x more decentralized, its processes use 10x the electricity. And that means 10x the polution.....potentially.

So decentralization frees us on the one hand, and shackles us on the other!

Nevertheless, good thoughts and encouragment in regards to image/sound/video storage. I save onto a clipboard the links of images on steemitimages for any that I think I will be using in future posts.

Take care,
Peace!!