{"id":893172,"date":"2022-10-25T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:43:00","slug":"why-i-am-a-pluralist","status":"publish","type":"msr-research-item","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/why-i-am-a-pluralist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am a pluralist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I increasingly use the terms \u201c<strong>pluralist<\/strong>\u201d to describe myself and \u201c<strong>Plurality<\/strong>\u201d to describe the direction I want to see technology go in.<sup class=\"footnote-ref\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" id=\"fnref1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radicalxchange.org\/media\/blog\/why-i-am-a-pluralist\/#fn1\">[1]<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0This essay, following up on my \u201cWhy I am not&#8221; series\u00a0<sup class=\"footnote-ref\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" id=\"fnref2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radicalxchange.org\/media\/blog\/why-i-am-a-pluralist\/#fn2\">[2]<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/sup>, tries to articulate what I mean by this and where it might lead us.<\/p>\n<p>The piece filters through my academic-technologist lens many things I have learned since Eric Posner and I published Radical Markets, but more than anything what I have learned from my fellow RadicalxChange board members Danielle Allen, Audrey Tang and Christopher Kulendran Thomas.<sup class=\"footnote-ref\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" id=\"fnref3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radicalxchange.org\/media\/blog\/why-i-am-a-pluralist\/#fn3\">[3]<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0While the piece raises many more questions than it answers, my hope is that these will be precise enough, in a way they have not been in the past, to help stimulate a coherent Plurality agenda for technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I increasingly use the terms \u201cpluralist\u201d to describe myself and \u201cPlurality\u201d to describe the direction I want to see technology go in.[1]\u00a0This essay, following up on my \u201cWhy I am not&#8221; series\u00a0[2], tries to articulate what I mean by this and where it might lead us. 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