'Decentralising' means spreading around effective decision-making power. That power comes with consequences -- negatives ones, if ineptly used. And most users a

'Decentralising' means spreading around effective decision-making power. That power comes with consequences -- negatives ones, if ineptly used. And most users are quite inept, when it comes to running powerful general-purpose computers, especially internet-connected ones. I don't blame them: the internet is not a friendly environment. It's a jungle. People want to be able to safely communicate online without the responsibility of system administration. Many companies have stepped in to offer services with this trade-off. Thus centralisation has prevailed. Urbit's conceptual path to decentralisation seems sound: build a new friendly network on top of the internet, and build a new friendly server OS on top of Unix.