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Autor: Nicolas Mendoza
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Para: System undo crew
Assunto: [unSYSTEM] Urbit: a personal cloud computer
This is very UnSystem:

"The user of the future will fly her own computer. She will own and control
her own identity and her own data. She will even host her own apps. She
will not be part of someone else's Big Data. She will be her own Little
Data. Unless she's a really severe geek, she will pay some service to store
and execute her Urbit ship - but she can move it anywhere else, anytime,
for the cost of the bandwidth.

A user can't manage a general-purpose computer unless she basically
understands what it's doing. She may not be a programmer, but she needs at
least a rough mental model of her computer's state.

A personal computer has to be a *simple* computer. This is why we built a
new system software stack from scratch, with the goal of bringing it in
under 10,000 lines of code. Urbit is about 50% over this complexity budget,
but nobody's perfect."

http://doc.urbit.org/

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Nicolas Mendoza

PhD Researcher
School of Creative Media
City University of Hong Kong
China PDR - HKSAR