>Digital technology has catalyzed polarization, inequality, loneliness and fear.

>Plurality (symbolized ⿻) harnesses digital tools not to replace humans or trust, but to channel the potential energy in social diversity that can erupt in conflict instead for progress, growth and beauty. From intimate digitally empowered telepathy to global trade running on social networks rather than money, ⿻ offers tools to radically enrich relationships while leaving no one behind.

>Plurality is not just about enabling pluralism, it's also about harnessing it, and about making a much more aggressive effort to build higher-level institutions that maximize positive-sum interactions between different groups and minimize conflict.

>Plurality is not just at the level of society, it's also within each individual, allowing each individual to be part of multiple tribes at the same time.

>This is the core idea that the Plurality book comes back to again and again: treating connections between individuals as a first class object in mechanism design, rather than only looking at individuals themselves.

>A global ⿻ community of dozens did a majority of the work to create this first-ever open-source, copyright-free, self-governed book harnessing tools described within. Their images were digitally blended and then tiled to create the above image.

>從Plurality 官方網站中可看到，不但有著各種語言的版本，內容更涵蓋從政府、新創、以及 NGO 與民間機構，講述運用資訊技術、web3 思維、分散式協作等等工具，用來改善現代的貧富差距、數位民主、投票技術、經濟問題等難題，可說是一本從去中心化（分散式技術）角度、重新思考人類社會、市場機制、公共財問題的新時代工具書。

>The platform relies on a mix of open source tools for sharing information, soliciting and holding polls. However, the key component of vTaiwan is Polis, a discussion platform developed by a team of Seattle-based developers. In a nutshell, Polis encourages the formation of ‘rough consensus.’ Once that consensus is reached, key stakeholders including policy makers are invited to a live-streamed, face-to-face meeting to draw up specific recommendations, potentially leading to new laws.

>viewpoints and division

>Polis in essence gamifies the process of finding consensus. It encourages users to propose and refine viewpoints to win greater support from all sides of a discussion. The greater the consensus around a viewpoint, the greater attention it gets.

>In 2015, Global car sharing giant Uber provided an early test for vTaiwan. Like in other jurisdictions, Uber was trying to enter the Taiwanese market and was encountering resistance from local taxi drivers, leading to a flurry of debate. Initially, opinions were strong on both sides of the debate between pro- and anti-Uber camps – the latter eventually growing far larger.

>However, as vTaiwan users revised viewpoints, they coalesced around more consensual statements like ‘the government should set up a fair regulatory regime,’ and ‘private passenger vehicles should be registered.’

>“Fundamentally, quadratic voting addresses the problem of the tyranny of the majority, a standard criticism of democracy,” Weyl says. “Standard rules are based on the notion that everybody is exactly the same and cares the same amount. If you doubt that’s a problem, think about the plight of African Americans in the United States, or the drug war, which dramatically affects certain groups of people.” But with quadratic voting, you can vote harder on what’s closer to home. And when the vote is over, all the money in the pot gets distributed to each voter equally, which is supposed to sort of re-grade the playing field for next time.

>In a modified version of quadratic voting, Colorado legislators each got 100 virtual tokens to buy votes on a number of measures. "There was a pretty clear signal on which items, which bills, were the most important for the caucus to fund,” says one state rep.

>Plurality explores the transformative potential of digital technologies to strengthen democracy on a global scale. Both a book and open-source project, Plurality considers how collaborative technology can promote greater transparency and enhance public participation by providing channels for direct input on everything from workplace governance to how markets can operate.

>architects of Taiwan’s internationally acclaimed digital democracy – achieved inclusive, technology-fueled growth that harnesses digital tools to strengthen both social unity and diversity.

>Drawing on Taiwan’s journey to becoming an inclusive digital democracy, the book blends interdisciplinary and international perspectives to advance a more hopeful future for the digital world—where coming together across lines of difference can lead to stronger and more equitable democratic systems.

>From intimate digitally empowered telepathy to global trade running on social networks rather than money, ⿻ offers tools to radically enrich relationships while leaving no one behind.

>Plurality explores the transformative potential of digital technologies to strengthen democracy on a global scale. Both a book and open-source project, Plurality considers how collaborative technology can promote greater transparency and enhance public participation by providing channels for direct input on everything from workplace governance to how markets can operate.