Plurality: Technology for Collaborative Diversity and Democracy

A book proposal that seeks to use global citizens to help build a book that shows how technology can be used in a way that "recognizes, honors, and empowers cooperation across social and cultural differences." The authors, partners in the Plurality Institute, invite readers (in multiple languages) to contribute to this exploration. This paper is worth reading for its view on the various roles that technology might play either in hindering or encouraging social organization that may affect those working in the regenerative development space.  

"We are about to embark on a journey and hope you will join us. Over the past half decade we have, in collaboration with so many of you, been developing an alternative to the usual narratives about the future of technology that focus on financialization or centralized artificial intelligence. Plurality , as we call it, is technology that recognizes, honors, and empowers cooperation across social and cultural differences. You can learn a bit more about it in the overview below. We believe Plurality is the natural technological paradigm to support the flourishing of democratic societies and can overcome many of the entrenched divisions in our world today. We want to tell the world about this possibility so we can stimulate the diverse and coordinated investment and experimentation that can make it a reality. And we want your help."

 By Audrey Tang and E. Glen Weyl, published at Radical Exchange

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