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Now available for purchase via Amazon (), the book has taken two years, dozens of global contributors, the endorsement and support of leaders from every sector, region, ideology, etc. (). Get one today!
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To our knowledge, we are the first fully open source, public domain/
@creativecommons
0 book ever written for a general audience. As a result, despite endorsements from the
@DalaiLama
,
@VitalikButerin
and many others, no publisher would work with us. Help us show that
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Link to first English print run pdf draft: . And now a full, ordered list of thanks and congratulations to all the co-authors, as we know them, who are credited in the book:
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Exciting that the first chapter that
@audreyt
took the lead on is now online here, as the preface for the book! PRs welcome as everywhere:
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A powerful endorsement from the person who first introduced
@glenweyl
and
@audreyt
,
@VitalikButerin
: "In a technologically advanced, politically challenging and rapidly evolving 21st century, what does a free and open future look like? Glen, Audrey and their coauthors
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⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy is submitted to the printer and will be published May 20! Thank you to the community for the incredible collaboration that made today possible!
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And that, my friends, is a wrap. The material that will be printed in the first English run is now finalized! As of now, the book reopens for any edits folks want to make, but all edits will go through the full community approval process through
@gov4git
(GitRules).
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@davegoldblatt
Audible version coming soon, but open source audio already here and much cooler:
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Thanks to
@imgisele
for printing out the first slice of the book today! Makes everything feel increasingly real.
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Literal and direct view (no filters or editing) from the writing retreat with
@audreyt
,
@VitalikButerin
,
@pujaohlhaver
,
@imgisele
. We are from the future, if only a few hours.
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How to finally give 🇹🇼 the global respect it both needs to survive and deserves for being the most successful society in the world? A heart-wrenching film () and an accompanying book () endorsed by world leaders across every divide
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Two more chapters now available to read () and/or collaborate on (): Markets and A View from YuShan.
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Publishing on Monday! Stay tuned for the purchase link and surprise bonus content!
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Immortal words of His Holiness the
@DalaiLama
touched our hearts this morning: "In the vast, boundless expanse of Plurality, each life is a unique and precious existence. Regardless of how perilous external circumstances may be, the inner sanctuary of our hearts remains a
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Upcoming book travel rough schedule below. If you are interested in organizing something in one of these places, please reach out here or glen
@plurality
.net:
June 17-21: Andean region of South America
June 22-27: Southern cone of South America
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collaboration and openness can work and be sustainable by getting your copy today: . Also check out the trailer for the accompanying film: .
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What would it mean to run a society's technology and politics beyond binaries? The world's first 🏳️⚧️ minister
@audreyt
has done that on the ground as you can see here () and study in depth here (). We call it ⿻ 數位 Plurality.
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Attention community! We need someone with logo design experience who wants to take on the central visual design challenge for the book, designing a rendering of the characters 數位 that will become the canonical symbol of Plurality. Please reach out if interested.
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regarding a book on politics, technology or society, or any book this secular. Gratitude and blessings to this treasure of infinite compassion and fount of endless courage and praise to
@imgisele
for reaching a hand out in humility and hope to His Holiness.
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Many thanks to the inimitable
@EconoScribe
and
@TheEconomist
for this wonderful piece about the future of digital collaboration, the ⿻數位 Plurality book,
@gov4git
and the future of digital collaboration: . To be clear, though, 1. We have not added
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With the book coming out next month, we're heading into promotion/publicity season full steam. If anyone out there has been thinking about doing a podcast interview, writing a story, submitting an op-ed etc. about ⿻ Plurality, the time is nearly upon us.
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Delighted to announce the release of the next 3 chapters, the first three of the "Freedom" section of the book. Please check them out here () and help us improve them here ()
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For those who want the richest IRL experience, we have just released a premium, hardcover, full color version of the book:
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Who is ⿻ community that is the third author of the book?
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Readme now up at . Please contribute! Much more material and updates coming soon.
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Another new chapter, on contract, property and digital asset sharing, is up at and on
@github
at . Especially excited for
@m_t_prewitt
and
@iamtrask
's contributions on this one.
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Alert! T minus a month until the English version is finalized for printing. We are in severe need of folks to do research assistant and editing work. All work will be amply credited and folks will become effective co-authors and co-directors.
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Interesting data point: an order of magnitude more books have been sold in Japan than in all other jurisdictions combined.
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Deep gratitude to one of the three "patron saints" of ⿻,
@dsallentess
, for her kind support of our work, to appear on its back cover in English shortly:
@glenweyl
and
@audreyt
offer us a portal into a future where technology supports democracy, the benefits of human pluralism,
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We have now converted the limitations of the first chapters into issues to be addressed. Please join in and help us plurally create a plural future!
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A promise: if you genuinely want to contribute to the book, regardless of your skill set, there is 95% probability you can. Please join us!
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What is the story the
@CPofCN
least wants you to hear? One that can unite the free world (left/right, north/south, east/west) in celebration of 🇹🇼's world-leading democracy. Out today, a trailer () and book () that do just that.
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Thank you to the bard of ⿻ imagination,
@MandaScott
, for the kindest review of the book so far! So looking forward to all we can do together.
Once in a while a book comes along that completely reshapes the paradigm, that pushes us to the edges of where we are so that we can
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Thanks to the incredible work of
@john___hadaway
,
@AlexRandaccio
and the rest of the
@pluralitybook
team, we are excited to launch our website:
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Translation forks so far: Ukranian , German, Traditional Mandarin, Hindi and Japanese. We need lots more! Especially: Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, Bengali, Urdu, Indonesian, Turkish and Simplified Mandarin. Please reach out!
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Apologies for the audio problems the free audiobook online. These should now be mostly addressed:
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One thing many do not realize: under the new
@TAIWANmoda
Digital Gold Card scheme if you contribute for 8 years to open source, you are automatically eligible. This is actually HUGE: Taiwan is the highest median income (at PPP) country on earth. Rather than those seeking
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Delighted to announce a new visual profile for the book and movement as you'll see in the banner and profile, with associated unicode symbol: ⿻!
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Audiobook now available at , read by a digital model blending the voices of several authors.
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What can the
@DalaiLama
, leading Trump advisor
@JohnnieM
, Occupy inspiration
@StavShaffir
, artist
@hitRECordJoe
and political philosopher
@dsallentess
all agree on? That
@audreyt
and 🇹🇼 are shining examples to the world of the future of technology and democracy.
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June 28-30 (Audrey only): Rockies
July 1-7 (Audrey only): US West Coast
July 5-7 (Glen only): Montréal
July 8-13: DC
July 14-17 (Audrey only): UK
July 22-26: Japan
July 27-31 (Glen only): NE Asia
August 1-9: Taiwan
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Thank you to
@aono
, one of the great exemplars of ⿻ in the Japanese business community, for his support: If internet technology has accelerated fragmentation, it should be possible to achieve a comfortable coexistence. *Plurarity* is full of hints for this purpose.
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@glenweyl
(author and co-founder)
@audreyt
(founder and author)
@imgisele
(author)
@akinorioyama
(website)
@maymounkov
(
@gov4git
protocol)
Derek Worthen (,
@gov4git
user interface)
@pujaohlhaver
(co-authorship of several chapters in Part 5)
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Shaurya Dubey (, marketing)
@VitalikButerin
(editing, especially of Part 3)
@tofuswang
(graphical design lead)
@lilian7951
(, graphic design star)
@taipeicity_eth
(translation management and community leadership)
@gardenenigma
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fertile soil for compassion and wisdom. Let us take positive action to allow the seeds of shared goodness to break through the earth and blossom into flowers of empathy, joy and harmony." To the best of our knowledge, these are the first words His Holiness has ever shared
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Wow what great timing! Looks like
@MandaScott
has a new book out with lots of stuff about themes like in the book. . Came out just 10 days apart.
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are either listed here () or have yet to sign up for
@gov4git
(including my dear family friend and legendary computer scientist Peter Hart and the pioneering artists
@hollyherndon
and
@matdryhurst
, who contributed a chunk of a chapter), including one
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We are honored to receive our first endorsement for the book from the great
@bradrcarson
(former Congressman and current President of both
@utulsa
and
@americans4ri
, who describes the book as "visionary in design, execution and substance."
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If you're reading and loving the book, please leave an Amazon review! You can get credit for that too.
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Of course it is disappointing that after months of commitments and inducing us to drop other offers, our publisher
@nostarch
rug-pulled us in the weeks leading up to publication. But, as the Tao Te-Ching teaches us, "(T)he Master is available to all people and doesn't reject
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Two more chapters out, starting the fifth Part of the book, Democracy. Read here: Collaborate here:
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Plurality community folks interested in being involved in PR, promotion and media aspects of the book project, please reach out!
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While
@DalaiLama
is an impossible act to follow, we were also profoundly honored to receive these powerful and humbling words from one of the greatest social and political leaders in Africa, Dr.
@obyezeks
today: "Plurality is...truly fascinating...a potential global accelerator
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Please reach out if you might be interested in maintaining a translation fork of the underlying Plurality English root book.
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Plurality community members, reach out if you like making informative diagrams like this: . The book needs lots more!
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Thank you to
@anneapplebaum
, one of the strongest voices of freedom in our time, for her kind words on this difficult day. "With wit, erudition and optimism, Audrey Tang and her collaborators argue that we can harness digital technology to confront authoritarianism, and that we
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Last 24 hours to make substantive edits to the book! Then one more week for copyedits.
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@carl_cervone
(data vis)
@calikasia
(
@gov4git
business leadership)
Jason Entenmann (project management)
@noahyeh
(stories in Part 4 of the book)
@lauerjeremy
(co-author of 6-2 on health)
JJ Reynolds Strange (, Taiwanese history)
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So happy to have another important chapter by another brilliant pair of community members merged in! Thank you
@KinneyZalesne
@KinneyZ
and
@npyati
!
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We are also still looking for translation fork leaders in many leading languages, such as Spanish, French, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali and Urdu. Material is CC0 so leading such a fork lets you effectively "own" the authoritative version of the book in your language.
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From
@jasonfurman
, former Chair of
@BarackObama
's
@WhiteHouseCEA
and perhaps the most important policy economist today: "An exciting, creative and provocative set of ideas on how to make progress on some of the most fundamental problems in the world. You will never think the same
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This week
@glenweyl
will be presenting the book
@HarvardAsh
. Register here if you'd like to join:
GETTING-Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy – Ash Center
ash.harvard.edu
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Two more chapters up! "Access" and "From Plurality to Reality". Read here: Collaborate here:
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10 days until the English language version to be printed is locked! If you want to contribute, please do so now!
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Another chapter up to read … and collaborate on: …. particularly excited for input from
@divyasiddarth
,
@metaviv
,
@colinmegill
,
@_jaybaxter_
,
@landemore
and
@LukeThorburn_
.
@shuyanglin
and
@FangJuiChang
, please add more detail
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The document will live on and influence translations, the next English print run, etc. Check out the fully copyedited version now at !
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Thank you to the greatest musician and artist of our time engaging full force with emerging technology,
@hollyherndon
, for this inspired statement: "It is clear which technologies will impact the future of culture and democracy. We lack a pluralistic, positive sum, vision of
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(copyediting)
@omo_omotweets
(formatting)
@nishio_en
(index, translation and community leadership)
@KZalesne
(co-authorship of the last chapter)
@npyati
(co-authorship of the last chapter)
@Greg_WangCT
(community leadership and research assistance)
@GeordanShannon
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Gratitude to the conscience of the tech industry, inventor of virtual reality, author of many books and dear friend, Jaron Lanier, for his words: "Rejoice! Here is a burst of creativity that gives us a peek at the humanistic high tech future we suspected was possible."
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Stanford and Bay Area friends: hope to see some of you at our (digital) book launch March 11
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Chapters 2 and 3 now available to read here: and to contribute to here: . Much more information and structure coming soon, thank you all for your participation!
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Thank you to the global face of tech reform, co-founder of the
@HumaneTech_
and star of
@SocialDilemma_
,
@tristanharris
, for his support: "In an era of anxiety and division,
@glenweyl
and
@audreyt
provide a rare, grounded vision for how technology and democracy can harmonize,
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be used to distribute eventual revenue to some extent but is mostly a marker of social capital and a way to empower collective governance.
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(co-authorship of 6-2 on health)
@evandavidpaul
(copyediting and endurance to the bitter end)
@junsolK
and
@profjamesevans
(scientific and sociological expertise)
@MicheleZanini
(business expertise)
@IdentityWoman
(identity, deliberation and digital public infrastructure)
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Congratulations to
@Chusana
on both completing the Thai translation of the book (now available here: ) and becoming our new overall translations lead!
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His original words in traditional Mandarin:
「在這浩瀚無垠的多元宇宙中,每個生命都是獨特而珍貴的存在。無論外在環境多麼險峻,，內心的淨土是慈悲與智慧的沃土，讓我們以積極的行動讓共善的種子破土而出，綻放出慈悲、喜悅與和諧之花。」— 第十四世達賴喇嘛
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In honor of the European elections, we'll be launching the book in Paris in a few weeks! Join us
@VivaTech
!
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Are you a student looking to contribute to
@pluralitybook
? We could really use folks to contribute in a research assistance and citation capacity. All contributors will be formally credited with plural credits, mention on the author page and for large contributions appearance
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who needs organizational clearance before he can be listed. So many thanks and congratulations to you all!
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Thank you to perhaps the greatest technology leader in Africa and a hero to so many,
@kenyanpundit
, for her support of our work: "In financial technology and digital infrastructure, Kenya and other African countries are already ahead of outdated models in the North. With
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Plurality community! Looking for a leader on the (self-)publishing and NFT process for the Plurality book. DM or email glen
@plurality
.net.
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The book is also now available for purchase on LikerLand with NFT!
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Two more chapters posted, on Impact on the Workplace and in Media. Read here: Collaborate here:
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Many thanks to two of the greatest economists of our time,
@DAcemogluMIT
and
@jasonfurman
, for their kind support of the project!
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I am surprised
@dsallentess
never surfaced this to us!
Aristotle gets it: "It's clear that the more a state approaches unity, the less it qualifies as being a state. The nature of a state is to be a plurality, and in tending toward unity a state becomes more like a household and from being a household more like an individual."
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Final push weekend! English first edition finalized EoD Sunday!
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Second endorsement in, from the greatest historian of economic growth of our time,
@GalorOded
, who says," It is a delight to finally see a vision for the future of human progress so clearly grounded in its past. With Plurality, we have a framework for building the engines that
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Many thanks to one of the key academic inspirations for ⿻,
@alex_pentland
, founding figure of
@medialab
, Data Science and Computational Social Science for his support: "Here in clear and non-technical prose is a sweeping vision for how to integrate technology and society to
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What an incredible honor! Your work is an inspiration to us all. Hope we can find a way to work with you!!
Read the first chapters on the ✈️ and can’t recommend it enough. I used to be an avid reader, but now I’m usually bored w books; however, this one grabbed my attention again. It’s super necessary so we don’t have this apocalyptic macho idea of the future. It’s in our hands, btw
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If you buy the book and post about it, you can join the community and receive credit! Post with a proof of purchase (e.g. photo of you with the book) and link to buy () and include a link or screen shot in your application: .
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