# The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [224]. 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), 2010-06-08 (publication data), https://www.shareable.net/the-unplugged-the-videos/. 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): Fiction about living well for nine billion; futurism ancestor of Harappa. - Career works it belongs to: - The Unplugged (2006): Speculative fiction about a way of living that could work for nine billion people. - Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008): The Hexayurt in two of Jane McGonigal's games: in Superstruct (2008) he wrote DCAR, a refugee state housed... - Saving the World on the Cheap (2007): Essay on a new way for charities and governments to fund lifesaving engineering. (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) - A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (2017): Keynote to the Dutch Blockchain Coalition (BC3) at Techruption: insurance as the way to make different... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. - 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) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Ideas developed here: The Unplugged (long-term vision) - Topics: gupta / vinay / blockchain (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Unplugged (6 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); The Unplugged (4 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); Superstruct (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); DCAR (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2008); Buckminster Fuller (1 here; 29 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); Gandhi (1 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); Fuller (1 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2006) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Superstruct - Importance: core-text score 0.41 (1.00 is the top), number 158 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [148] [Mother of Hydrogen (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md): earlier form of the same idea: The Unplugged (2006) is the long-term vision Harappa and Mother of Hydrogen later dramatise - [108] [User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md): same career work: The Unplugged - [114] [Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md): same career work: The Unplugged - On the same works, just before: [91] [The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md); [854] [UNCIVILISATION, The Dark Mountain Festival 2010: Vinay... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/854.md); [710] [TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) - On the same works, just after: [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); [365] [social media and local resilience (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.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: The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable, document, 2010-06-08, https://www.shareable.net/the-unplugged-the-videos/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [224], https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://www.shareable.net/the-unplugged-the-videos/) The Unplugged: The Videos by Vinay Gupta | June 8, 2010 vinay-gupta-2.jpg These two videos were created to accompany "The Unplugged," a speculative fiction published today on Shareable. Buy a physical copy of the Library of Things Toolkit This 250-page book will walk you through the process to start (or grow) a thriving sharing hub in your community. By ordering direct from Shareable, you’ll automatically get 25% off! Buy a copy This is a message from a Shareable Future. An electronic governance entrepreneur retires after a harrowing experience helping establish DCAR , an emergent African refugee republic that helped save millions from starvation between 2021 and 2028. In a post-Superstruct narrative, the retiree moves to California to join The Unplugged. The Unplugged is a communitarian mass movement based on the economic philosophies of Gandhi and political science of Buckminster Fuller. Full-blown Unplugged colonies emerged in Northern California when the minimalist and anarconomy branches of the movement realized that autonomous political zones were necessary if they were to continue on their path to freedom. In any case, life is easier, if not spartan, in Unplugged country for this traumatized retiree. Tags: green consumption , Shareable futures , unconsumption , videos Vinay Gupta I’m Vinay Gupta. The following is a cross-section of my work. Hexayurt – the world’s cheapest, most durable emergency shelter. Free/open source. Small... More from Vinay Gupta We noticed you're visiting from United Kingdom (UK). We've updated our prices to Pound sterling for your shopping convenience. Use United States (US) dollar instead. Dismiss --- End of [224] The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [74](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md) “Complex systems behave unpredictably” – Gupta’s law of... (2010); the most closely related, [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.