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Among the Reality Entrepreneurs | The Point Magazine

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If you wanted to know what was really going on, you had to get on Urbit.

The hippies had gone from Tibet to Christ to the Middle Ages, now they were Revolutionary Alchemists. Well, thought Mailer, that was alright, he was a Left Conservative himself. “Out, demons, out! Out, demons, out!” “You know I like this,” he said to Lowell. —Norman Mailer at the Levitation of the Pentagon, October 21, 1967 The emails started arriving a few weeks beforehand. “You’ve been counting down the days,” they explained, “patiently anticipating your arrival at the first event. You’re ready. The wait is almost over: Urbit NYC kicks off next week.” Urbit is a decentralized network, loosel

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