# worldchanging.com

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [192]. 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/<id>.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages.

## Where this source sits

- Source: document (Web page), 2006-02-20 (from the career record), https://web.archive.org/web/20181222140951/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004123.html. Text: document text
- On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009).
- How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Dead capture; no content to fit.
- Career works it belongs to:
  - The Unplugged (2006): Speculative fiction about a way of living that could work for nine billion people.
  - People's Cloud architecture and futures in 1000 words (2013): Blog essay: the data center is doomed, its efficiency is bought with centralization and monitoring, and... (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)
  - Internet of Agreements (2017): Paper at the World Government Summit in Dubai on producing legal agreements at industrial scale. (suggested by machine)
  - UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): Consulted on UK rules for resolving disputes over smart contracts; Mattereum is quoted in them. (suggested by machine)
- Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of:
  - 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)
  - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine)
  - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (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: FluSCIM / pandemic planning (Spanish) (100%)
- Importance: core-text score 0.18 (1.00 is the top), number 377 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation
- Related sources:
  - [155] [Mother of Hydrogen (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md): career thread: Mother of Hydrogen (nine billion lifestyle, then the novel)
  - [822] [Mother of Hydrogen, a novel (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md): career thread: Mother of Hydrogen (nine billion lifestyle, then the novel)
- On the same works, just before: [188] [Hexayurt Image Gallery (2003)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/188.md); [190] [Image(80) (2003)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/190.md); [10] [Course of Action (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/10.md)
- On the same works, just after: [825] [Index of /hexayurt_sketchup_files (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md); [103] [Hexayurt project/Assembly (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md); [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007)

## 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: worldchanging.com, document, 2006-02-20, https://web.archive.org/web/20181222140951/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004123.html; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [192], https://guptaoption.com/texts/192.md.

## Passages
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End of [192] worldchanging.com. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt.
Read next: next on the same works, [825](https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md) Index of /hexayurt_sketchup_files (2006); the most closely related, [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.