It is worth reading Brandon Quittem's "Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species" and John Arnold's "Bitcoin Is Eating The World" in succession. I suspect both will be considered quite prophetic one day.

“After planting roots in a virgin ecosystem, the pioneer species slowly transforms their surroundings, making conditions suitable for more complex organisms to join the party. Before long, this once barren wasteland becomes an oasis of life.”

”…providing instant settlement of borderless bearer value is a unique and unprecedented phenomenon with derivative implications for every industry, and it will inexorably pull businesses that currently have nothing to do with bitcoin into bitcoin’s orbit.”