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Autore: Diego Saa
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To: System undo crew
Oggetto: Re: [unSYSTEM] Urbit: a personal cloud computer
Careful... that almost sounds the way some bankers would talk about bitcoin.
On Nov 9, 2014 6:25 AM, "Wladimir" <laanwj@???> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 5:51 AM, 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.
>
> It looks interesting, and beyond-the-looking-glass weird, but I have a
> very hard time taking it seriously.
>
> Is it not very much like a command-line minecraft with a healthy dose
> of computer science? Still good for education, if it could be brought
> as a playful introduction into functional programming concepts, but I
> have a hard time visualizing this as the cloud platform of the future.
>
> Wladimir
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