If you are excited for the arrival of the world’s first ZK-scaling UTXO smart contract ledger (not to mention the fully autonomous DAOs) you might be a little curious about Urbit, the operating system that makes Uqbar possible.
Urbit is an atomic, consistent, isolating, durable database defined as a general-purpose operating system that is defined as a pure function of its input stream. (whitepaper)
Could you free humanity from the internet by giving people control over it? It sounds grandiose, but as you think about it there is a certain logic to the idea... what is "web3," after all, if not the idea that digital culture should be owned by the users, not by the proprietors of the digital chokepoints of centralized cyberspace? The concept of Urbit is that digital self-ownership won't happen until you, the consumer, own the computer that runs the software you need.
Now, the Urbit-skeptic might counter that there exist forces