What People Are Saying

Plurality has received endorsements from leaders across technology, academia, and public policy.

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 offer a compelling view of a way forward.

Vitalik Buterin

Founder of Ethereum

They offer us a portal into a future where technology supports democracy, pluralism, and broad human flourishing. We know this future is possible because Tang has been building it in Taiwan.

Danielle S. Allen

Political philosopher, James Bryan Conant University Professor at Harvard, MacArthur Fellow

Plurality reads like optimistic sci-fi, already happening in real life! Can democracies around the world follow in Taiwan's footsteps to upgrade free society for the digital age?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Emmy-winning artist and founder of HITRECORD

With wit, erudition and optimism, Audrey Tang and her collaborators argue that we can harness digital technology to confront authoritarianism, and that we can do so by leaning into, rather than shying away from, the principles of an open society.

Anne Applebaum

Pulitzer Prize winner, author of Twilight of Democracy

Rejoice! Here is a burst of creativity that gives us a peek at the humanistic high tech future we suspected was possible.

Jaron Lanier

Inventor of Virtual Reality, Microsoft OCTOPUS

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 way again after reading this book.

Jason Furman

Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Harvard Economics Professor

Here in lucid and non-technical prose is a sweeping vision for how to integrate so much of what we've learned about technology and society in the past decades to remake the future of democracy, from someone who is actually doing it on the ground.

Alex "Sandy" Pentland

Inaugural Academic Head of the MIT Media Lab

In an era of anxiety and division, Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang provide a rare, grounded vision for how technology and democracy can harmonize, and propel us to a better future.

Tristan Harris

Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology