From a brief presentation that I did as a “range finder” for the Through the Looking Glass talks I’ll be doing in Ireland towards the end of September 2010.
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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“Returning Risks”
by Vinay Gupta • September 9, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
The Future We Deserve – one week to go for submissions
by Vinay Gupta • September 6, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
The Future We Deserve is going great! As you can see, we’ve raised the $2000 on Kickstarter, and now we’re pushing to get the 100 pieces written. The 40 or so pieces we have so far are wonderful. The sense of a faceted future, each person with their own broad perspective on it, the profusion [...]
Read more →The real economic impact of the internet has not been felt yet
by Vinay Gupta • September 6, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
From the archives, an excerpt from an old blog post on miniconsulting on decision-making as a transformation in our economy. The basic thrust of this piece was quite simple. What is the economic benefit of having the best person in the world make each decision? That seems like the real economic impact of the internet [...]
Read more →Institute for Collapsonomics tour of Ireland
by Vinay Gupta • September 1, 2010 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
I’ll be doing a series of events in Ireland around the 26th of September, 2010. That’s the first one posted. Many thanks to the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas who are organizing and hosting. I won’t be focused extensively on the threat model; I believe that terrain is better covered by [...]
Read more →What is the State?
by Vinay Gupta • August 30, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
Max Weber’s definition was that something is “a ‘state’ if and insofar as its administrative staff successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence in the enforcement of its order.” I’ve found this definition not to aid my thinking about conflict areas and state failure, where monopolies of any kind [...]
Read more →We can’t have nice things because Hakim Bey and the Pope will molest your children
by Vinay Gupta • August 30, 2010 • Everything Else • 2 Comments
The problem at the heart of all edgy political movements is that the government is doing the wrong thing, but ignoring the government has three worse consequences: the government will punch you in the head, other, evil groups (racists, say) will also ignore the government, and often simply being free is not enough, you want [...]
Read more →Raygun Soaps
by Vinay Gupta • August 27, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
Raygun Soaps n., Star Trek, X Files, Warehouse 13, Stargate and all the rest. Fix the gadget, fight with the bad, have a beer with your mates in 10 Forward at the end of the show.
Read more →Free housing and 21st Century Leadership
by Vinay Gupta • August 27, 2010 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
Buckminster Fuller and Mahatma Gandhi showed that single individuals could transform the world. When I really got started in this game, in 2002, with the invention of the hexayurt, I searched hard for some model of how to be effective. Here’s roughly what I came to. Institutions which own humanitarian problems have been ineffective for [...]
Read more →The Way of the Dassie
by Vinay Gupta • August 26, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
1-Don’t speak that which is not true 2-Don’t take that which is not offered 3-Don’t be a pervert 4-Practice to be psychic 5-Don’t kill anyone or anything By those lovable weirdos, Die Antwoord. I haven’t seen this level of high weirdness in quite a while.
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