# The Future We Deserve - 2 > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [354]. 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: video, 2012-02-15 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9irdzMI13I. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - 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): Futures-writing project update. - Career works it belongs to: - The Future We Deserve (2012): Essay collection co-edited with Cat Lupton and Noah Raford, released March 2012; includes the short story... - In a Page (2010): A series of one-page papers, mostly from spring 2010, each putting one argument on a single sheet. (suggested by machine) - The Big Deal (2011): Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with... (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: - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - 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: fab / yes / laser (67%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: The Future We Deserve (2 here; 19 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 2 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.46 (1.00 is the top), number 127 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [240] [The Future We Deserve — Introduction (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md): same career work: The Future We Deserve - [210] [The Future We Deserve (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md): same career work: The Future We Deserve - On the same works, just before: [106] [The Future We Deserve (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md); [822] [Mother of Hydrogen, a novel (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md); [823] [Plausible Utopias (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/823.md) - On the same works, just after: [240] [The Future We Deserve — Introduction (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md); [210] [The Future We Deserve (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md); [330] [Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Smari McCarthy (Icelandic Fab... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/330.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 Future We Deserve - 2, video, 2012-02-15, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9irdzMI13I; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [354], https://guptaoption.com/texts/354.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9irdzMI13I&t=0s) about a year and a half since we had one of these little chats about the future we deserve and it just shows how much can happen in a year when i started the project i'd expected that the world would get more difficult and more complicated very very quickly and that on the original production schedule the book would be released into a complicated year uh what the queen might call an honest horribleness and um as can happen things just took much longer than i expected them to including some of the production technology behind making the book easy to produce as the first of a series so i did something that i had not expected to do or told people i would do which is i waited and i waited and i waited uh until the world began to look like the conditions i'd envisaged when i originally started the book when i commissioned people to write and when i told the picture about trying to hold together a coherent picture of a positive future um the book has been an enormous learning experience there are probably three things i want to say about it but only two i will today the first is that if you put an open call out on the internet you expect a lot of the material to be very mixed in quality and what i found from the future we deserve is the material was universally awesome there are probably maybe a dozen pieces out of a hundred that i really don't like um but there are no pieces that i'm unhappy to publish and to publish something which has a perspective that you consider to be a challenging offensive or just plain wrong is actually part of the process of being a responsible curator in the 21st century you have to take account for the fact that if we had a single unified accurate global perspective there would be uh well we'd be looking under the catholic church right the the fact that we do not have a coherent story is an incredibly important part of our story um the second thing that i wanted to comment on was how production technology is changing publishing and this is something that you're going to see with google's project as well uh the new public thinking book which i'm published published in um that when you bring the overhead of collecting texts together editing them uh turning them into a book and producing them below a certain threshold then the commissioning and editorial functions [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9irdzMI13I&t=150s) get a chance to shine it because you're no longer bound by financial capital management as a necessary prerequisite for publishing and the book is actually a very good format i think it's going to be a good few years before the e-reader has the tangible physical pleasing solidity of the book and in that interim period the ability to quickly accurately produce um pleasing important paper is becoming radically democratized so i think that we may see something happen to books a lot like has happened to music that rather than having a book which is a million seller there are a thousand books which sell a thousand copies each um and uh this brings me to the production process so future we deserve is doll intensive is finished i am procrastinating and being finicky about the last few things i am squeezing in a couple of pieces from people that i really wanted to publish and who just hadn't gotten it together a year ago and uh i am working to finalize cover and forward a few other bits and pieces from uh sean chamberlain who i'm very pleased to say has been a substantial help with this thing and uh who i'm you know glad to have written forward for it um and i'll tell you more about that again another time so basically sometime i'm gonna put the last few things into the wiki and pull the trigger and there will be a first edition for sale and probably uh sometime around end of march or beginning of april we'll do a second pass where we'll fix the typos that come in from the first couple hundred years uh we might issue a correction or two if there are things which have been challenged uh generally though you know the intention is to have the text be living and we'll also get to work on a second book which i think is going to be called the present we have and focus very much on trying to represent the world as it is in this form of short 500 word piece or two or three infographic articles which begin to shape a picture of reality um because it's very clear that you read the newspapers and you watch the television and you read the internet and what you see are lots and lots of glimmers and flickers of the real world peeking out from the haze of uh consumer culture and to collect those little flickers together into this large kind of glass object a little like the crystal ball um from [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9irdzMI13I&t=300s) lord of the rings and to actually be able to show people look this is how the world really is um i think that'll be the next project but for now get future reserve out the door is the priority um so a little more procrastination a little more tweaking and uh the time will finally be right and it will launch so thank you very much for your patience and i hope you'll enjoy the book when it's finally released thank you --- End of [354] The Future We Deserve - 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, [240](https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md) The Future We Deserve — Introduction (2012); the most closely related, [240](https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md) The Future We Deserve — Introduction (2012); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.