For a number of technical reasons (security and scaling) I've come to believe that urbit or something much like it is inevitable.
IPv6 might solve the address space problem but the high level problems (e.g. constant privacy invasions) are such a clusterfuck that it is crippling IoT and other potential growth sources.
I'm happy to shill for them because there really aren't that many people doing truly new things with computation in Silicon Valley.
What I wrote about the three-way decoupling is a result of some time I spent thinking "the Star Trek way" - i.e. how would the cloud ecosystem look like if it was made primarily to be useful, as opposed to sucking money out of people.
The trouble is that it seems that nearly every internet corp sees "decoupling" as an existential threat.
Funny you should mention visiting the stars since Urbit's founder was thinking about Mars.
His thesis is that we need to throw the whole thing out and start over, then graft the alien technology on top of our existing stack.
https://moronlab.blogspot.ie/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...