# The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the mind | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [91]. 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 (Text), 2010-05-03 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-imperialists-of-the-future-are-the-imperialists-of-the-mind-1725. 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): Framing of economic and weapons threats the plan must survive. - Career works it belongs to: - In a Page (2010): A series of one-page papers, mostly from spring 2010, each putting one argument on a single sheet. - 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... - 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: - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. - 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: Rural poverty & development infrastructure (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: ecocide (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2010) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): ecocide - Importance: core-text score 0.22 (1.00 is the top), number 344 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [828] [The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/828.md): same career work: The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas - [826] [Index of /in_a_page (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/826.md): same career work: In a Page - On the same works, just before: [828] [The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/828.md); [38] [Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md); [128] [Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md) - On the same works, just after: [854] [UNCIVILISATION, The Dark Mountain Festival 2010: Vinay... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/854.md); [224] [The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md); [74] [“Complex systems behave unpredictably” – Gupta’s law of... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.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 imperialists of the future are imperialists of the mind | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2010-05-03, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-imperialists-of-the-future-are-the-imperialists-of-the-mind-1725; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [91], https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-imperialists-of-the-future-are-the-imperialists-of-the-mind-1725) in a page is a seven essay collection describing our global situation from different perspectives. Here’s a taste. We have a serious problem. Communism leads to genocide. But Capitalism leads to ecocide. Our models of wealth are so broken that high tech societies of all kinds are inoperable on the long scale. The robo-nano-bio revolution will bring weapons, simple to make and hide, and of unparalleled destructiveness. Try starting with the seventh seal. The essays are designed for printing. Please pass them around, and let me know what you think. --- End of [91] The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the mind | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [854](https://guptaoption.com/texts/854.md) UNCIVILISATION, The Dark Mountain Festival 2010: Vinay... (2010); the most closely related, [828](https://guptaoption.com/texts/828.md) The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out... (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.