Skribent: Andrea Castillo Dato: Til: System undo crew Emne: Re: [unSYSTEM] Urbit: a personal cloud computer
Yeah Moldbug rocks.
http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/2009/03/collected-writings-of-mencius-moldbug.html?m=1 On Nov 8, 2014 11:52 PM, "Nicolas Mendoza" <nicolasmendo@???> wrote:
> 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/ >
> --
> Nicolas Mendoza
>
> PhD Researcher
> School of Creative Media
> City University of Hong Kong
> China PDR - HKSAR
>
>
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