Here's another fun thought... Satoshi is not the only person to do something like this... only the first. Peer to peer, encrypted systems can and will change everything... and some early adopter nerd types just got bankrolled by playing with Bitcoin a few years ago. They can retire and do fun projects now, inspired by Satoshi's breakthrough. Bitcoin is the tip of the iceberg, but the very best thing to happen first along these lines.
I concur. What Satoshi has done is create a morpho-genetic field on how to allow to crowd-source the middle-man. Its like breaking the 4 min mile barrier. Once it was done, then a lot of people started doing it. Bitcoin was that effort that broke through a barrier, but it learnt from everything before it that didn't. And now, the innovation is on the side of open systems that are in the best interest of people rather than the middle-men.
The creators of MasterCoin, PeerCoin and NXTcoin have all done just that. Without going to any venture capitalist, old money hoarder, they have created wealth and systems that benefit humanity in huge ways yet provide immense wealth for the creators too.
