What it brings to the table: - peer-to-peer networking for every node on the network - secure networking as the default - an identity system built in to the

What it brings to the table: - peer-to-peer networking for every node on the network - secure networking as the default - an identity system built in to the network layer (no more usernames and passwords) - A functional programming language that doubles as a serialization layer (no more JSON/XML impedance mismatch) - A simplification of the local software stack OS (<1% of the LOC of the linux kernel, though there is still functionality missing) - Deterministic computing The urbit developers imagine that in the future, things like twitter or hacker news will be peer-to-peer apps rather than giant mainframe computers controlled by a single entity