# OHM2013 Program > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [169]. 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 (Web page), 2013 (from the career record), https://program.ohm2013.org/event/323.html. 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): Talk on housing 7+ billion within one planet and connecting villages: the plan's scale goal. - Career works it belongs to: - Hexayurt Project: from sheds to sustainability (2013): Talk at Electromagnetic Wave 2013, London: what a small shed can do for nine billion people living within... - One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): Talk at the OHM2013 hacker camp: housing everyone at one planet's worth of consumption, and why... - The Big Deal (2011): Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism (2014): Talk at Electromagnetic Field 2014: the Hexayurt as engineering outside the market, for the three billion... (suggested by machine) - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... - goat rodeo to warlords: The goat rodeo idea, from a 2010 blog post to a 2011 one-page paper to the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015). (through a work suggested by machine) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Property, NFTs & real-estate transactions (50%); Rural poverty & development infrastructure (50%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Sheds to sustainability (2 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 1 undated); Gandhi (4 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); Fuller and Gandhi (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); open hardware (2 here; 15 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); Fuller (3 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); The Future We Deserve (2 here; 19 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 2 undated); OHM2013 (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 2 undated); Buckminster Fuller (2 here; 29 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); Hexayurt Project (2 here; 70 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 4 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.37 (1.00 is the top), number 182 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [753] [(OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md): same career work: One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World - [706] [Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin - with Vinay Gupta | Virtual... (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/706.md): career thread: Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (price signals carry a few bits; blockchains make transactions... - On the same works, just before: [393] [Green Foundation Ireland - The Future of Europe (2) (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/393.md); [394] [Green Foundation Ireland - The Future of Europe (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/394.md); [72] [A Feather for Lifting Anvils – EdgeRyders 2.0 plans to... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/72.md) - On the same works, just after: [686] [VINAY GUPTA, Future of Europe Seminar, Nov 2012 (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/686.md); [85] [Swarm Cooperatives Schedule | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md); [388] Big Picture Days Hangout 4 (2013) ## 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: OHM2013 Program, document, 2013, https://program.ohm2013.org/event/323.html; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [169], https://guptaoption.com/texts/169.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://program.ohm2013.org/event/323.html) OHM2013 One Network. One World. Designing for a 7+ billion person world. By Vinay Gupta Within 10 years, the villages and slums of the world are going to join the internet, unleashing revolutions in education, connectivity, and potentially politics. In this talk we will discuss engineering out way out of a global crisis that few are even willing to full acknowledge: we are slaughtering the poor and killing the ecosystem we evolved in at an ever-increasing rate, while our governance structures regulate the only structure humanity has built which might scale to provide a solution. Long neglected thinkers on the political aspects of engineering hold the keys to a solution. We will rattle their cages. This is going to be a gruelling, hard going talk. Most "internet native" politics are weak on global issues and operate within a European or American frame. Even Stallman, when he talks about the world, carries strongly western assumptions. There is another politics, hidden behind our cultural façade: the engineering-led globalism of Buckminster Fuller, and the Autonomist Socialism of Mahatma Gandhi. Both Fuller and Gandhi are misunderstood and marginalized: what both discussed was the practical business of creating a world without political oppression by getting the engineering right! Gandhi's work on assessing the social and economic impact of technologies before adopting them was central to his critique of the Industrial Revolution - with one hand, it automated, and with the other hand, it taxed to feed people without employment. We remember the Salt March, but we forget Gandhi's vision of an economy built on self-sufficient village-scale engineering. Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of the geodesic dome and a father of the environmental movement, asks a simple accounting question: with X billion people in the world, how can we provide food and shelter for everybody without wrecking the environment? A simple enough question, but one which no human social structure addresses with sufficient vigour to have any hope of implementing the answer. A billion fat and a billion starving share the same world, connected by wealth-concentrating markets and information-freeing networks. Which will give hope and relief? This is a talk about engineering our way out of a global crisis that few are even willing to acknowledge: we are slaughtering the poor and killing the ecosystem we evolved in at an ever-increasing rate, while our governance structures regulate the only structure humanity has built which might scale to provide a solution. The villages and slums of the world are about to arrive on the global network. Things are going to start to change. Let's examine how we might steer that process to get a world we can live with, and the future we deserve. Links Ending Poverty With Open Hardware The Hexayurt Project - from sheds to sustainability Concurrent events Innoculab: How to hack Biotech? in Hardware Hacking at 11:00 3D Print Sprint in Fablab Alkmaar at 11:00 The Ecological Economy in Rainbow stage at 12:00 Arnon Grunberg: Hack a human in HOAP at 12:00 ebCTF start in [passage 2](https://program.ohm2013.org/event/323.html) with, and the future we deserve. Links Ending Poverty With Open Hardware The Hexayurt Project - from sheds to sustainability Concurrent events Innoculab: How to hack Biotech? in Hardware Hacking at 11:00 3D Print Sprint in Fablab Alkmaar at 11:00 The Ecological Economy in Rainbow stage at 12:00 Arnon Grunberg: Hack a human in HOAP at 12:00 ebCTF start in ebCTF at 12:00 Forban: Saving the Libraries by Sharing - Forban is an opportunistic p2p software to independently share software with your local neighbors in T2: Turing Hall at 13:00 Metal casting workshop in Sparkshed and Mordor at 13:00 Digital Whistleblowing with GlobaLeaks in T3: Lovelace Tent at 13:00 Create a realtime web app with Node.js in Room 101 at 13:00 Why Money Will End (And How To Prepare) in T4: Lamarr Tent at 13:00 One Network. One World. Designing for a 7+ billion person world. in T1: Orwell Hall at 13:00 2. Fairphone FOSS roadmap sessions [N^2] in Noisy Square 2 at 13:00 Hackerspace Dinner in OHMroep at 13:00 What's the matter with the hackers these days? in T6: Noisy Square 1 at 13:00 Day 3 Start time 13:00 Duration 1:00 Location T1: Orwell Hall Type Lecture Track Observe --- End of [169] OHM2013 Program. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [686](https://guptaoption.com/texts/686.md) VINAY GUPTA, Future of Europe Seminar, Nov 2012 (2013); the most closely related, [753](https://guptaoption.com/texts/753.md) (OHM2013) One network one world designing for a 7 plus... (2013); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.