About Vinay Gupta

Head over to Re.silience.com. It’s a much better starting point than here! Click through to Re.silience.com. (if you are interested in my professional work, try here) I am trying to keep you alive. There are lots of threats which governments are either ignoring or causing. Nuclear war, bioweapons, even plain old conflict are driven by resource scarcity. A likely response to increasing resource scarcity (manifest as economic problems and rising prices) is centralization of power (fascism). Finding better solutions than centralization and war is my life’s work. To this end I’ve worked extensively with government, the military, some large companies and think-tanks – but most of all with the Free and open source community – to solve real problems. Click here if your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video This video me in action at Surviving the Event. Here is a visual index of my activities. If you are professionally interested in my work, read on. You may find my perspective useful in three areas:

openMaterials Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,[21][22] cognitive scientist, logician,[23][24][25] political commentator and anarcho-syndicalist activist. Sometimes described as the "father of modern linguistics",[26][27] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy.[21] He has spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently Professor Emeritus, and has authored over 100 books. He has been described as a prominent cultural figure, and was voted the "world's top public intellectual" in a 2005 poll.[28] Born to a middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish family in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from relatives in New York City. He later undertook studies in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his BA, MA, and PhD, while from 1951 to 1955 he was appointed to Harvard University's Society of Fellows. Early life Childhood: 1928–45

Open Source Ecology The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world Open Source Architecture Manifesto at Istanbul Design Biennial Visitors to the Adhocracy show at the Istanbul Design Biennial are confronted with a plotter taking the text of the Open Source Architecture Manifesto from a Wikipedia page and writing it onto a wall. (+ slideshow) Created by Walter Nicolino and Carlo Ratti of Carlo Ratti Associati, the plotter updates the text as the Wikipedia page changes. The project began last year when Joseph Grima, editor of Domus magazine and curator of the Adhocracy show, asked Ratti to write a manifesto for open-source architecture. "I said yeah sure, but let’s do it in an open-source way," Ratti told Dezeen. "So we set up a page on Wikipedia." Ratti, who is director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, invited contributors including Nicholas Negroponte, John Habraken, Paola Antonelli and Hans Ulrich Obrist to contribute to the page to create an evolving document that was published in Domus in June 2011. The plotter is based on similar principles to Hektor, a wall-mounted plotter that paints with a spray can.