Merge pull request #993 from Sjlver/main

Minor typo and formatting fixes

ReadMe.md

@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ All materials in this repo and in all other parts of this project (unless explic
 
 To cite this text, you can use this bibtex as a sample
 
+```bibtex
 @online{plurality2023,
   title={Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy},
   author={Weyl, E. Glen and Tang, Audrey and {the Plurality Community}},
   year={2023},
   url={https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality/blob/main/contents/english},
   publisher={GitHub},
 }
+```
 
 # Identity and credit
 

contents/english/0-0-endorsements.md

@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@
 <br></br>
 
 > *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? Fingers crossed for a happy ending. <br></br>
-— [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt), E
-mmy-winning artist and founder of [HITRECORD](https://hitrecord.org/)
+— [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt), Emmy-winning artist and founder of [HITRECORD](https://hitrecord.org/)
 
 <br></br>
 

contents/english/8-blurb.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Technology and democracy are increasingly in conflict in the West, but Taiwan sh
 
 #### Chapter 2-0: Information Technology and Democracy: A Widening Gulf
 
-In the West, technology is increasingly undermining democracy while democracies constrain rather than supporting technology.
+In the West, technology is increasingly undermining democracy while democracies constrain rather than support technology.
 
 #### Chapter 2-1: A View from Yushan
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ We call the philosophy behind this success ⿻ 數位 Plurality, the harnessing
 
 #### Chapter 3-1: Living in a ⿻ World
 
-It rests on the recognition that the world is not made up of atoms and large wholes, but instead of diverse, intersecting social groups and units (e.g. people) whose identities that are constituted by those intersections.
+It rests on the recognition that the world is not made up of atoms and large wholes, but instead of diverse, intersecting social groups and units (e.g. people) whose identities are constituted by those intersections.
 
 #### Chapter 3-2: Connected Society
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The complement to personhood is freedom of association, which in the digital wor
 
 #### Chapter 4-3: Commerce and Trust
 
-Commerce in a ⿻ is grounded in a protocols that capture a diversity of formalized social trust rather than primarily in a global fungible currency.
+Commerce in a ⿻ is grounded in protocols that capture a diversity of formalized social trust rather than primarily in a global fungible currency.
 
 #### Chapter 4-4: Property and Contract
 
@@ -82,13 +82,15 @@ To take on ambitious collaborations, associations must be able to commonly manag
 For all these to be true human rights, there needs to be universal access to these above capabilities with informational integrity, hence the need for them to be open protocols grounded to validated, redundantly stored data.
 
 ### Part 5: Democracy
+
 The core of ⿻ is technology for collaboration across social difference, making it possible for people to connect more deeply across greater social divides.
 
 #### Chapter 5-0: Collaborative Technology and Democracy
 
 Such collaboration always involves a tension between depth and breadth, meaning there are a range of present ways to connect from intimacy to capitalism, at every point along the spectrum of which ⿻ aims to mitigate the trade-off.
 
 #### Chapter 5-1: Post-Symbolic Communication
+
 On the most intimate end of the spectrum, “post-symbolic communication” aims to create direct brain-to-brain connections to allow deeper sharing of subjective experience than ever before.
 
 #### Chapter 5-2: Immersive Shared Reality