Urbit: the personal server

The internet has failed to decentralize. What started as a network of nodes in people's homes turned into a network of server farms largely owned by a handful of tech giants. Flaws in the internet's design and implementation allowed for an online world to form where a few large services control nearly all users. Social networks don't put you in touch with your friends. They put you in touch with a server that helps with that... at the cost of privacy and community.

Urbit aims to solve this and many other problems by providing a decentralized network of personal servers. These come with a personal identity and an operating system that provides an immutable global namespace and all the infrastructure needed for making decentralized applications.

Speaker: Mark Staarink