I imagine one of the main opportunities crypto in general will present is the opportunity to directly monetize things that you previously couldn't. Like here with Steem, we're directly monetizing content.

With Golem, you'll be able to monetize your cpu computing power, with Substratum you can monetize extra hard drive space you have on your computer.

One token people around here probably don't know about but that's of particular interest to me is RNDR, which will allow you to do gpu rendering on your computer and sell that computation for their token, then trade that directly for render time on their service(gpu rendering).

I think buying and selling things with crypto is only the beginning. You can make an "original" piece of digital artwork and store it on the blockchain so that only one version can exist, or a limited supply, etc.

Needless to say, I'm bullish.