Urbit: The Thousand Year Operating System (S03 E07)

The Technium

Urbit is an operating system for a global networked computer with a global filesystem. It has its own virtual machine, programming language, OS kernel, and identity layer. It dubs itself as “A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century.”

Links/Resources:
- https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf
- https://developers.urbit.org/overview
- https://developers.urbit.org/guides/core/hoon-school
- [https://vimeo.com/75312418
- http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html
- https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion
- COMMENTARY
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438320
- https://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/12/a-brief-introduction-to-urbit.html
- https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
- https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/#tldr
- https://twitter.com/basileSportif/status/1544963208099909633
- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:01:54] What is Urbit?
[00:06:30] The Functional Kernel Avro
[00:13:46] Application Network Ames
[00:18:07] Code Update Mechanism
[00:23:38] Hoon Lang and Nock VM
[00:33:56] Personal Computing through Digital Sovereignty
[00:38:53] A Personal Computing Experience You Own
[00:43:46] Cypherpunk Values
[00:45:32] A Computer as an Heirloom
[00:51:48] Philosophical Origins and Its Influence on Design
[01:01:09] Capitalism Softens Radical Ideas
[01:05:40] A computer you can't break
[01:12:48] A ghost in the shell for 100+ years
[01:17:05] What if the internet had identity and payments built in from the beginning?
[01:27:29] A Global ID
[01:30:37] A Digital Extension of the Self
[01:43:31] The Takeaway Despite the Roots

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