# RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (part 2 of 2) > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [11], part 2 of 2. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (PDF), 2011 (year of the work, not of publication), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Security-tier analysis of networks and state power; background to later sensor-checked treaties. - Career works it belongs to: - RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011): Interview for the UK Royal College of Defence Studies' cyber research, run by Hardin Tibbs of Synthesys:... - The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010): One-page paper: the richest fifth are eating the planet, so the next economy has to be at peace with other... (suggested by machine) - The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011): Talk deck at Aston Business School: identity, money and culture are being rebuilt from below, and... (suggested by machine) - Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility of access to information as an aspect of cyber policy (2012): Cyber policy essay: past a point, more surveillance data has negative value, because a state can collect... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. - cyber and defense: Security work for defense clients, built on one idea: set rivals to check each other. Resilience and Opportunity in... - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. (through a work suggested by machine) - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Rural poverty & development infrastructure (15%); The Global Cyber Game (15%); Bitcoin, libertarianism & the state (15%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: ICANN (4 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); cyber (10 here; 32 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); mutually assured destruction (2 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2007); Hardin Tibbs (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); gold standard (2 here; 17 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); local minima (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); Cyberpunk (2 here; 21 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); distributed manufacturing (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); Julian Assange (1 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); science fiction (2 here; 37 sources in all, earliest dated 2011) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): science fiction; Cyberpunk; second hand; Julian Assange; distributed manufacturing; local minima; Hardin Tibbs; ICANN - Importance: core-text score 0.33 (1.00 is the top), number 216 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [21] [RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md): same career work: RCDS cyber (Tibbs) - [752] [Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md): career thread: Ethereum launch (crypto replaces manufactured scarcity) - On the same works, just before: [854] [UNCIVILISATION, The Dark Mountain Festival 2010: Vinay... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/854.md); [74] [“Complex systems behave unpredictably” – Gupta’s law of... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md); [250] [Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) - On the same works, just after: [87] [The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md); [46] [Reawakening the Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/46.md); [51] [The Only Way Out Is UP | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/51.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: RCDS cyber (Tibbs), document, 2011, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [11], https://guptaoption.com/texts/11.md. ## Passages, part 2 of 2 [p. 12 to 13](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/Defense_Security_Resilience_and_rapid_technological_change.pdf#page=12) go straight off the maps of every old religion, and into an unimaginable future. At 40, I can expect to see most of this happen. Hard problems like space travel are slow to move, but everything which is soluble in transistors is going to go down to a million­fold increase in available computer power. And that's most of our complex systems problems (weather modeling, gene expression and so on) and simulations which run over every single member of the human race. Who is best able to adapt to these environments, and why is it impossible to hire them for military work? The archetype of the straight­laced soldier admits little of the fluidity of identity required to navigate a world where you may be required to redefine what is human, to extend human rights to robots, and the whole panoply of RAND/Hard Sci futures. The difference is that these ones are actually happening. We lack imagination, but not knowledge. It's coming, who shall greet it, or what? Surely with these kinds of technologies, many or most of our core problems as a species ­ things like disease or natural resource constraints ­ simply go away? Or are there confining downsides to consider? In this world, everybody gets a free college education over the internet. Everybody gets personalized healthcare from genomics and clever massive­compute body scanners which may bring MRI and CAT within the range; cheap, safe digital medial equipment. The problem is that one brat with a smallpox genome and a spare printer. If people do not become good, they are going to have to be enslaved for their own protection. (XVI) The final choice is between enslaving our the population to protect them from their own power (in the form of, particularly, biological weapons created with digital manufacturing techniques ­ gene printers and protein factories) and improving the human condition so much that nobody cares enough to pick up the swords which litter the landscape in a power with such enormous power in the hands of individuals. Direct modification of the human genome to breed out aggression might be typical of the sorts of insanity contemplated as we get closer and closer to the razor's edge: the digitization of life itself, allowing computer viruses to smoothly become biological viruses if they can only find the right peripheral to download themselves into physical form through. You can already have bits of DNA made to order on the internet. The digitization of life itself is coming, with unknown and unintended consequences. --- End of [11] RCDS cyber (Tibbs), part 2 of 2. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md) The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011); the most closely related, [21](https://guptaoption.com/texts/21.md) RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.