# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 2 of 9, 2006 to 2008)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 2 of 9, 2006 to 2008; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-3.md. 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; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### CheapID (2006)

- Identity, law and blockchain; proposal; specified; work id cheapid; https://guptaoption.com/cheapid/
- What: Design for a sub-$1 identity card, written for the US Office of the Secretary of Defense, that keeps biometrics apart from reputation and discloses identity only on court order.
- Summary: Identity layer of State in a Box. Sterile card, split biometric from reputation, disclose on court order, under $1. The Identity Services Architecture paper descends from a 2006 paper for the US Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD/NII). One international biometric uniqueness database holds no names; national rivals run it together, like the banks behind VISA, and their mutual distrust keeps it honest. Asset Passport conceived here.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; cryptographic applications; cyber and defense; environment / green capitalism
- Came from State in a Box (2006): identity layer of the box. Evidence (he says so): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Came from Cypherpunks (1992): PKI on the person. Evidence (he says so): On the ethics (and pragmatics) of cryptography (blog) (2012-02-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/on-the-ethics-and-pragmatics-of-cryptography-2985
- Led to Asset Passport conceived (2006): conceived 2006; far ahead of even bitcoin. Evidence (he says so): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta, 14 August 2023 (2023-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5bFKPqLDg&t=2738s
- Led to FREE Guptastan (2008): the state in the box, public. Evidence (implied by the later work): FREE Guptastan (blog) (2008-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- Led to Mattereum (2017): disclose on dispute. Evidence (he says so): Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta, 14 August 2023 (2023-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5bFKPqLDg&t=2738s; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s
- Led to Ethereum launch (2015): signed card to programmable chain. Evidence (implied by the later work): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s
- Led to Product information markets (2019): same pattern: claims about the object. Evidence (implied by the later work): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (CheapID) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Led to UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): disclose on dispute, here is the forum. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules, rule 13 (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt#page=7
- Led to Tell Me Who You Are: Identity, institutional memory, and the persistent illusion of the self (2015): keep biometrics and reputation apart, worked through for the blockchain era. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Tell Me Who You Are (ConsenSys, Medium) (2015-12-23) https://medium.com/@Consensys/tell-me-who-you-are-258268bf3180
- Led to RCDS cyber (Tibbs) (2011): defense clients: US OSD, then UK RCDS. Evidence (he says so): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2250s; Mattereum is Blockchain Cypherpunk (2022-03-01) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaXwqx-XzA&t=0s
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): rivals keep it honest: a biometric database, then AI systems. Evidence (implied by the later work): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (guptaoption.com) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Multipolar Realpolitik, The solution (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Led to Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility of access to information as an aspect of cyber policy (2012): data the state should not hold. Evidence (implied by the later work): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Blind in the Panopticon (2012) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/cyber/blind%20in%20the%20panopticon.pdf#page=2
- Led to Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): identity held in escrow, disclosed by due process. Evidence (he says so): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004
- Led to The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011): identity rebuilt from below. Evidence (implied by the later work): CheapID (guptaoption.com/cheapid) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/cheapid/; The Future We Deserve: Facebook for the Five Billion? (slides) (2011-06-02) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf#page=1
- Led to A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (2017): the 2006 Defense identity work, cited in the talk. Evidence (he says so): Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=120s
- Led to Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008): CheapID written into Superstruct's 2019
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [31](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md) guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006); [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007); [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md) CheapID (2006); [692](https://guptaoption.com/texts/692.md) Vinay Gupta:From Global Resilience to Practical... (2019); [730](https://guptaoption.com/texts/730.md) The Bitcoin Podcast Interview #343- Vinay Gupta CEO Of... (2021); [59](https://guptaoption.com/texts/59.md) Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In... (2007)

### Course of Action (2006)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id course-of-action; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf
- What: Plan showing five actions with appropriate technology could prevent about a third of yearly deaths.
- Summary: Hexayurt and appropriate technology. Four quadrants of humanity. Five actions save about a third of annual deaths.
- Threads: environment / green capitalism; nuclear / panflu
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): policy wrap. Evidence (he says so): Course of Action (PDF), p. 1 https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf
- Led to The Future of Stuff (2020): urban-rich environmental destructiveness. Evidence (implied by the later work): Course of Action (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf; The Future of Stuff, p. 25 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [10](https://guptaoption.com/texts/10.md) Course of Action (2006); [368](https://guptaoption.com/texts/368.md) Superstruct Communications Intercept 1 - DCAR (2008); [363](https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md) Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report -... (2011)

### First Pentagon Proposal: the Hexayurt Research Agenda (2006)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id first-pentagon-proposal; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/First%20Pentagon%20Proposal.html/index.html
- What: An outline asking for funding to make the Hexayurt an off-the-shelf item and to assemble a Complete Family Support System for displaced people.
- Summary: Stability operations framed as restoring self-sufficiency: seven observations on belligerence and dependency, then values (systems not solutions, no charity), heuristics (buy off the shelf, form a community of practice) and goals. Funds systems architecture (an off-the-shelf hexayurt, decision documentation, field handouts and videos, water, power and stoves) and scouting (high-density shipping, food, a curriculum printed on hexayurt walls, a family life package).
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007) (no text here); [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008); [70](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md) The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [830](https://guptaoption.com/texts/830.md) Laziness, Impatience and Hubris: Vinay Gupta of the... (2011)

### H18 (2006)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-h18; https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- What: A tall Hexayurt: 18 panels and 12-foot walls.
- Summary: Tall hexayurt: 18 sheets of 4x8, 12-foot walls. Appropedia specifies the 18-sheet build by October 2006. Experimental large hexayurts and the Axial Temple, the first large-scale hexayurt installation, went up at Burning Man that year.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from First hexayurt built (2003): then the tall size. Evidence (implied by the later work): Appropedia: Hexayurt project, sizes and design table https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt; Appropedia: Hexayurt playa, 12 foot hexayurt aka H18 https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- Led to Quaddome (2011): larger still, same sheets. Evidence (implied by the later work): Appropedia: Hexayurt project, sizes https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt; Appropedia: Hexayurt project/Nearodesic https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Nearodesic
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa (2006); [103](https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md) Hexayurt project/Assembly (2006); [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [118](https://guptaoption.com/texts/118.md) File:Hexayurt at Burning Man 2010.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (2010); [16](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [90](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md) The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010); [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md) Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique (2010); [698](https://guptaoption.com/texts/698.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - End Homelessness |... (2014); [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010); [825](https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md) Index of /hexayurt_sketchup_files (2006); [188](https://guptaoption.com/texts/188.md) Hexayurt Image Gallery (2003); ...

### Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? (2006)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id resilience-4gw; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/resilience/Resilience%20and%20Opportunity%20in%20Fourth%20Generation%20Wars%20(Final).pdf
- What: Briefing arguing that insurgencies end when fighters can go home to a living, so distributed infrastructure and microfinance are tools of war: an individual-level Marshall Plan.
- Summary: Five diagram pages. In Iraq the US had spent at least $200 billion; at an assumed 100,000 hostile combatants defeated, that is $2 million each. Fourth-generation war is cheap-labor war in which fighters choose their own level of involvement, so it is won when everybody left alive has gone home to raise a family and earn a living. A stocks-and-flows model of self-sufficient, belligerent, dependent and dead populations shows refugees and people whose infrastructure has failed becoming recruits. Rebuilding with distributed infrastructure and microfinance turns that flow around; diverting even 5% of potential combatants into better lives counts as effective war. Cites Brittle Power and Small Is Profitable from the Rocky Mountain Institute.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; cyber and defense; hexayurt to chain
- Came from Small is Profitable (2002): distributed infrastructure creates resilience. Evidence (he says so): Resilience and Opportunity in Fourth Generation Wars (PDF), p. 2 (2006-10-27) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/resilience/Resilience%20and%20Opportunity%20in%20Fourth%20Generation%20Wars%20(Final).pdf
- Led to State in a Box (2006): win by rebuilding; State in a Box is the rebuild. Evidence (he says so): State in a Box (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/8.state_in_a_box.php
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): microfinance for distributed infrastructure. Evidence (implied by the later work): Resilience and Opportunity in Fourth Generation Wars, p. 4 (co-authored) (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/resilience/Resilience%20and%20Opportunity%20in%20Fourth%20Generation%20Wars%20(Final).pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Sources (9, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [20](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md) Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory... (2006); [827](https://guptaoption.com/texts/827.md) The Private Humanitarian Company (2010); [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md) State in a Box (2006); [48](https://guptaoption.com/texts/48.md) The Second Amendment in Iraq, Combat Robotics, and the... (2008); [54](https://guptaoption.com/texts/54.md) Framing The Collapsonomics Practice | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md) The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011); [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md) Winning the Long Peace (2007); [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md) About (2007)

### State in a Box (2006)

- Identity, law and blockchain; proposal; specified; work id siab; https://guptaoption.com/8.state_in_a_box.php
- What: State in a Box: a plan to rebuild a state on distributed infrastructure, written for reconstruction operations.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. SSTR rebuild of the state on distributed infrastructure and Jeffersonian ideals. CheapID lives inside it.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; cyber and defense
- Came from Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? (2006): win by rebuilding; State in a Box is the rebuild. Evidence (he says so): State in a Box (guptaoption.com) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/8.state_in_a_box.php
- Led to CheapID (2006): identity layer of the box. Evidence (he says so): State In A Box: Identity Services Architecture (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
- Led to FREE Guptastan (2008): WSLE pitch. Evidence (he says so): FREE Guptastan (blog) (2008-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- Led to Through the Looking Glass (2010): the State in a Box method, reused for civilian risk. Evidence (he says so): Through the Looking Glass talk 24:58 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=1498s
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md) State in a Box (2006); [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007); [35](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md) CheapID (2006); [370](https://guptaoption.com/texts/370.md) Superstruct Report 1 (2008); [592](https://guptaoption.com/texts/592.md) ‘800 Year Old Goat Hide Parchments: Real Estate ’ (2022); [285](https://guptaoption.com/texts/285.md) quick test (2016); [351] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference... (2012) (no text here)

### Stretch hexayurts and the Pentayurt (2006)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id hy-stretch; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_sketchup_files/
- What: The hexayurt family: 6, 8 and 12 foot hexayurts, stretched versions lengthened by 4 or 8 feet, and a steeper-roofed Pentayurt for snow.
- Summary: SketchUp source files for cutting plans, wall panels, roof triangles, stretch cutting plans, playa and research hexayurts and a three-room 8-foot layout. A family sheet gives floor area and sheet count for each: 6-foot 41 sq ft (5 sheets), 6-foot stretch 70 (7), 8-foot 166 (12), 8+4 stretch 221 (15), 8+8 stretch 276 (18), 12-foot 166 (18), 12+4 stretch 221 (22), 12+8 stretch 276 (26). Pentayurt: 48-degree roof, 110 sq ft, 9 feet 9 inches high. A stretch Hexayurt was field-tested in Nevada in September 2007.
- Sources (16, by hand first, then by importance): [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); [825](https://guptaoption.com/texts/825.md) Index of /hexayurt_sketchup_files (2006); [102](https://guptaoption.com/texts/102.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt playa (2006); [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [16](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [329](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012); [336](https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor (2012); [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md) Index of /files/fluscim (2010); [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md) Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique (2010); [751](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md) Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding... (2011); [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010); ...

### The Unplugged (2006)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id unplugged; https://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta/The_Unplugged
- What: Speculative fiction about a way of living that could work for nine billion people.
- Summary: Speculative fiction, 20 February 2006. Originally WorldChanging. A lifestyle that works for nine billion people: buy out at the bottom with independent life-support infrastructure. Hexayurt playa points here as the long-term global vision. Particularly important.
- Threads: fiction draws on
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): the housing of that lifestyle. Evidence (he says so): Tools To Not Die With (Boing Boing) (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html; Appropedia: Hexayurt playa, Hexayurt applications and the big picture https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
- Came from Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): autonomous building as unplugging. Evidence (he says so): The Unplugged (Appropedia, originally WorldChanging) (2006-02-20) https://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta/The_Unplugged; Tools To Not Die With (Boing Boing) (2011-10-24) https://boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tools-to-not-die-with-an-interview-with-vinay-gupta.html
- Led to Mother of Hydrogen (2012): nine billion lifestyle, then the novel. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Unplugged (2006-02-20) https://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta/The_Unplugged; Mother of Hydrogen: point-of-use utilities in Harappa (2012-11) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mother_of_hydrogen.txt
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [108](https://guptaoption.com/texts/108.md) User:Vinay Gupta/The Unplugged (2006); [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md) Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011); [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md) The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable (2010); [192](https://guptaoption.com/texts/192.md) worldchanging.com (2006)

### Tribike (2006)

- Survival hardware; idea; specified; work id tribike; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/tribike/tribike_notes.pdf
- What: A three-wheeled vehicle, the transport piece of the household kit.
- Summary: The dedicated transport design. A three-wheeler. The only standalone transport work; Winning the Oil Endgame is the car-side work on the same need. Fills the SCIM transport cell that was empty.
- Threads: standard SKUs; transport: tribike and cars
- Came from Winning the Oil Endgame (2004): cars in Oil Endgame, then the bike; oil in vehicles
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): appropriate-tech vehicle beside the house. Evidence (implied by the later work): Tribike notes (PDF) (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/tribike/tribike_notes.pdf#page=1
- Connects back to Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): mobility in the household kit. Evidence (implied by the later work): A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (blog) (2014-06-30) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-insight-into-the-gupta-doctrine-3571; Stamps talk 41:27, stove, water filter, cargo bicycle, toilets and solar lights all... (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2487s
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [152](https://guptaoption.com/texts/152.md) Tribike (2006); [289](https://guptaoption.com/texts/289.md) test (2016)

### Expedient Infrastructure for Transient Populations (EITP) (2007) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id eitp; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Five%20Slides%20on%20Expedient%20Infrastructure.pdf
- What: The 2007 program on shelter and infrastructure for 100,000 to 1,000,000 displaced people, between civilian and military systems, which became STAR-TIDES.
- Summary: His deck framed expedient infrastructure as working where neither civilian nor military infrastructure is available: a $200 building, a $15 stove, cheaper solar and emergency communications. The EITP conference met at American Red Cross headquarters, Washington DC, on 22 August 2007; he invited Progressive Building Solutions, who then field-tested a stretch Hexayurt in Nevada (report, 5 September 2007). By 22 September 2007 he called STAR-TIDES the new form of EITP. On 4 December 2007 he posted his slides, notes and talk video from a Red Cross Innovative Sheltering conference.
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [740](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.md) Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017); [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [829](https://guptaoption.com/texts/829.md) Index of /innovative_sheltering/day_one (2007); [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md) Defense Horizons 70 (2009); [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); [338](https://guptaoption.com/texts/338.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Vinay Gupta Robert Vrtis Combined... (2012)

### Folding hexayurt (2007) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id hy-folding; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/folding_hexayurt/folding_hexayurt.html
- What: An 8-foot hexayurt that folds into a single flat package and unfolds in minutes, first shown on video in March 2007, with a two-part version demonstrated in Eindhoven in 2008.
- Summary: Video briefing, 19 March 2007: how to make an 8-foot hexayurt refugee shelter that folds into one package for fast deployment. Built again at Combined Endeavor in Germany, 2007. A two-part version was demonstrated in Eindhoven in early 2008 with the Netherlands Red Cross and TU Eindhoven; his NDU briefing calls the 7-minute two-part build close to the commercial hexayurt Progressive Building Solutions were developing. The NDU 2008 handout says the whole building concertinas flat and is ready 5 minutes after unfolding.
- Sources (15, by hand first, then by importance): [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [375](https://guptaoption.com/texts/375.md) Folding Hexayurt Briefing (2007); [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008); [329](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012); [373](https://guptaoption.com/texts/373.md) Folding Hexayurt Opening and Closing (2007); [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007); [103](https://guptaoption.com/texts/103.md) Hexayurt project/Assembly (2006); [90](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md) The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010); [150](https://guptaoption.com/texts/150.md) Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing; [339](https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md) 15 minute video on how to make Hexayurts for Burning Man (2012); ...

### Networked Domestic Disaster Response (2007)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id nddr; https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation
- What: Plan for evacuating millions to tens of millions of US citizens.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. Plan for evacuating millions to tens of millions of US citizens. Paired with the mass-evacuation paper.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007): US mass evacuation plan. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (Appropedia): Disastr / Networked Domestic Disaster... (2007-07-28) https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation; Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (Appropedia): Special considerations in the nuclear... (2007-07-28) https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation
- Led to The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response (2008): domestic disaster response, as a company. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Open Toolbox for Domestic Disaster Response: new company, new paper (blog) (2008-10-14) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/the-open-toolbox-for-domestic-disaster-response-new-company-new-paper-1056; A novel approach to handling mass refugee situations in the United States (PDF), p. 1 (2007-08-10) https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/b/b1/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation.pdf#page=1
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [33](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md) Soft Development Paths (2008)

### Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id nuclear-evac; https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/b/b1/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation.pdf
- What: Plan for millions of US refugees after a disaster, epidemic or nuclear attack.
- Summary: Appropedia 2007: millions of US refugees after disaster, epidemic, WMD. Nuclear section: blast injury, clothes, bodies, national shock. Hexayurt Country: rehouse people after a nuclear bomb goes off.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): rehouse after the bomb. Evidence (he says so): A novel approach to handling mass refugee situations in the United States (PDF), p. 1 (2007-08-10) https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/b/b1/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation.pdf#page=1; STAR-TIDES briefing 45:00 (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfm1Y74ghFE&t=2700s
- Connects back from Black Elephant (2009): known bomb, treated as unthinkable. Evidence (implied by the later work): Nuclear Poker talk, London Educational Games Meetup 5:00 (2016-04-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9JHcA4MWA&t=300s; Dougald Hine, Black Elephants and Skull Jackets: a conversation with Vinay Gupta (2010-05-01) https://dougald.nu/black-elephants-skull-jackets-a-conversation-with-vinay-gupta/
- Led to Networked Domestic Disaster Response (2007): US mass evacuation plan. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (Appropedia): Disastr / Networked Domestic Disaster... (2007-07-28) https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation; Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (Appropedia): Special considerations in the nuclear... (2007-07-28) https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_mass_evacuation
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007); [701](https://guptaoption.com/texts/701.md) Vinay Gupta - Gun Control Precedes Genocide | London Real (2014)

### Our Future With Islam: A new perspective on the 'clash of civilizations' (2007)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id our-future-with-islam
- What: Strategy deck on how the West and Islam can live together once the West is off oil.
- Summary: A 64-slide deck, which its author calls the product of a late night bull session and risky ideas. It explains Islam to a Western audience, and argues that once the West is off oil it could live alongside states run under Sharia. Listed among the essays on the 2006 to 2009 Gupta Option homepage. Not linked from this page.

### STAR-TIDES (2007) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; built; specified; work id star-tides; https://star-tides.net/about/
- What: Helped start STAR-TIDES, a National Defense University project on supporting populations under stress.
- Summary: With Linton Wells II at NDU/CTNSP. Hexayurt and six ways as infrastructure frame.
- Threads: STAR-TIDES
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): shelter in the demos. Evidence (he says so): FreeAndReal talk 15:15 (2012-09-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhzX8AtGRA&t=915s; TIDES packet: Pentagon Center Court Demonstration, p. 1 (2007-11-19) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES_PACKET/TIDES_PACKET_144AM.pdf
- Led to Defense Horizons 70 (2009): co-author with Lin Wells. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 1 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=1; NDU Digital Commons record, Defense Horizons 15 (DH70) (2009-12) https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-horizons/15/
- Led to SCIM / INAM (2009): SCIM as underlying model. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 11, note 9 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=11
- Sources (10, by hand first, then by importance): [724](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md) Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024); [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007) (no text here); [321](https://guptaoption.com/texts/321.md) Vinay Gupta talking at FreeAndReal / The Telaithrion... (2012); [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [71](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md) TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [182](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md) About (2007); [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md) Defense Horizons 70 (2009); [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md) "STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed... (2009)

### Saving the World on the Cheap (2007)

- Economics of resources; proposal; specified; work id save-cheap; https://guptaoption.com/1.save.php
- What: Essay on a new way for charities and governments to fund lifesaving engineering.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. Charities, governments, and a new way to fund lifesaving engineering.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): how to fund the engineering. Evidence (implied by the later work): Saving the World on the Cheap (2007) https://guptaoption.com/1.save.php
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [29](https://guptaoption.com/texts/29.md) Saving the World on the Cheap (2007); [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md) The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable (2010); [58](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md) Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008); [158](https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md) Pixelache Festival 2015

### Winning the Long Peace (2007)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; specified; work id long-peace; https://guptaoption.com/2.long_peace.php
- What: Essay on extending the nation state, aimed at American policy.
- Summary: guptaoption.com. Extending the nation state to current American policy.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [30](https://guptaoption.com/texts/30.md) Winning the Long Peace (2007)

### disastr.org (2007)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id disastr; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/disastr.org%20overview.pdf
- What: One-page plan to house disaster refugees with host families: insulation board from the building industry, five-person build teams and a matching database.
- Summary: Bay Quake, 300,000 homeless; nuclear bomb, 5,000,000. Host families volunteer a back yard, refugee families go straight there, and a hexayurt goes up as a spare bedroom. The network, database and server grid are the plan.
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md) Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009); [726](https://guptaoption.com/texts/726.md) Talk by Vinay Gupta at the Blockchaingers Global Digital... (2018); [345] John Barlow at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference... (2012) (no text here)

### Akvo (2008) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; specified; work id akvo; https://akvo.org/
- What: Water work at Akvo, the Dutch open-source water and sanitation foundation.
- Summary: akvo.org, the Dutch open-source water and sanitation foundation. Vinay Gupta's time there is the thirst work. The Global Village Development Bank (2009) cites Akvo as the grant-side proof that decentralized infrastructure can be funded by decentralized finance. Akvo coordinated grants, not loans.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; standard SKUs
- Came from Hexayurt infrastructure kit (2003): household water, then the WASH org. Evidence (implied by the later work): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference keynote, slide 18 (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; Living Video and the Akvo Video Strategy (blog) (2011-05-03) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/living-video-and-the-akvo-video-strategy-2467
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): grant case; the Global Village Development Bank is the loan gap. Evidence (he says so): Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 2 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [267](https://guptaoption.com/texts/267.md) The future of humanitarian innovation (2017); [78](https://guptaoption.com/texts/78.md) Living Video and the Akvo Video Strategy | The... (2011); [332] Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Mark Charmer of AKVO and Chris... (2012) (no text here); [109](https://guptaoption.com/texts/109.md) akvo.org - Home (2008); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008) (no text here); [3](https://guptaoption.com/texts/3.md) The Global Village Development Bank v2 (2009)

### Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University (2008)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id ndu-briefing-2008; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/index.html
- What: Recorded briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at NDU, with a seven-point outline and the reading list behind the Hexayurt infrastructure work.
- Summary: 8 April 2008. Starts from 4 million refugees in Iraq feeding the insurgency and infrastructure failure. References: Brittle Power, NDDR, SPRS, Winning the Long Peace, Envisioning a Leapfrogged World, the Hexayurt Infrastructure Package, the playa checklist, and build videos from Combined Endeavor, Eindhoven and the Pentagon.
- Sources (8, by hand first, then by importance): [335](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md) STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012); [833](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md) Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008); [12](https://guptaoption.com/texts/12.md) Defense Horizons 70 (2009); [121](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md) "STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed... (2009); [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md) Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009); [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); [824](https://guptaoption.com/texts/824.md) Index of /__CRASHPAD (2011); [71](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md) TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007)

### Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id ending-poverty-open-hardware; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE
- What: Talk: half of all deaths are deaths from poverty, and open technology built household by household can bring those deaths close to zero. Given in Reykjavik in July 2008, then at Oekonux in 2009.
- Summary: First given at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference of the Free Software Foundation Iceland in July 2008, then at Oekonux in Manchester in March 2009 and at BarCamp Africa London. The slides argue "Half Of All Death Is Death From Poverty" ("30 million people a year") and that "open technology can reduce poverty cluster deaths to zero". Poor places cannot borrow for central plants, so infrastructure is financed household by household: power on each roof, water purification in each kitchen, waste disposal in each back yard, clean stoves. Cutting infant deaths also cuts family size. Being poor need not mean dying of it, any more than it means not affording an operating system. It closes on Gandhi's swadeshi.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; hexayurt to chain
- Came from What is the Global Swadeshi Network? (2008): the Reykjavik talk closes on swadeshi. Evidence (he says so): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides, closing slide (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; Blog Action Day: Ending Poverty with Open Hardware (blog) (2008-10-15) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/blog-action-day-poverty-ending-poverty-with-open-hardware-1070
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): open hardware against poverty. Evidence (he says so): Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 0:00, opens on the hexayurt [transcribed] (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=0s; Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides, closing slide (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): the needs diagram in the talk. Evidence (he says so): Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 14:49, the six ways to die diagram [transcribed] (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=889s; Ending Poverty With Open Hardware, Reykjavik slides (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/
- Came from The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure (2008): the household utilities, argued in Reykjavik a month later. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure, p. 13 (2008-06) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf; Reykjavik Digital Freedoms talk 14:49, move critical technologies to the household... (2012-05-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfZfgxayzE&t=889s
- Led to The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011): free hardware, then degovernancing. Evidence (implied by the later work): Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik keynote source) (2008-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; The Future We Deserve: Facebook for the Five Billion? (slides) (2011-06-02) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/facebook_for_the_five_billion/Facebook%20for%20the%20five%20billion.pdf#page=19
- Sources (10, by hand first, then by importance): [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md) Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference -... (2012); [238](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md) Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital... (2008); [67](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md) Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [61](https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md) Ending Poverty With Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [58](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md) Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008); [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [369](https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.md) Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die (2008); [226](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.md) Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan |... (2009); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008) (no text here)

### FREE Guptastan (2008)

- Identity, law and blockchain; idea; thesis; work id guptastan; https://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- What: Essay on a state-like entity that operates as a guest inside other countries, not as a sovereign.
- Summary: 29 April 2008, for Patri Friedman's Let a Thousand Nations Bloom. Guptastan is the state which is in the box. WSLE: weakly state-like entity, guest not sovereign.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from CheapID (2006): the state in the box, public. Evidence (implied by the later work): FREE Guptastan (blog) (2008-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- Came from State in a Box (2006): WSLE pitch. Evidence (he says so): FREE Guptastan (blog) (2008-04-29) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/free-guptastan-583
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [55](https://guptaoption.com/texts/55.md) FREE Guptastan | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2008)

### Health insurance for $10 per year using the network (2008)

- Economics of resources; idea; specified; work id health-insurance-10; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/health-insurance-for-10-per-year-using-the-network-898
- What: Google 10^100 entry: medical expert systems on cell phones, pooled epidemic data, and bicycle-riding pharmacists paid from tiny insurance premiums.
- Summary: About 1,300 words, 15 September 2008, one of his entries to Google's 10^100 project. Deploy medical expert systems on cell phones, assemble global epidemiological data into one database and pool what each user reports to track epidemics, then add bicycle-riding, computer-aided pharmacists who prescribe basic medicines and are paid from very small health insurance premiums. An idea, not a worked-out plan.
- Led to Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): insurance carried by the network
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [63](https://guptaoption.com/texts/63.md) Health insurance for $10 per year using the network |... (2008); [249] A long, difficult conversation about dealing with... (2020) (no text here); [498](https://guptaoption.com/texts/498.md) The Graphic Design Industry After Photoshop (2025)

### How to buy food for disasters (2008)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id food-for-disasters; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/how_to_buy_food_for_disasters.pdf
- What: One-page guide to a two-month emergency food supply for about $100, written the day Iceland's krona stopped trading.
- Summary: Reykjavik, 9 October 2008. About 2,200 calories a day, mostly flatbread, oil and tinned fish; lentils and powdered milk would add protein. Also in the State Failure archive.