Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs, and collaborators present a vision for technology that strengthens rather than undermines democratic participation. The book documents Taiwan's experiments with digital democracy, including platforms that allow citizens to deliberate on policy, tools that combat misinformation through collaborative fact-checking, and governance innovations that emerged from the country's vibrant civic tech community. Tang, a former civic hacker who became the world's first openly transgender cabinet minister, writes from experience of building systems that work. The book goes beyond Taiwan to propose principles for pluralistic technology that serves diverse communities rather than centralizing power. The authors argue that the apparent conflict between technology and democracy is not inevitable but reflects choices made by platform designers pursuing engagement over understanding. They offer alternative architectures for social media, voting systems, and economic platforms that would empower rather than manipulate users. The work is both theoretical, drawing on philosophy and political science, and practical, describing deployable systems. For anyone concerned about technology's threat to democracy, this book offers not just critique but constructive alternatives developed through real-world experimentation. That the Dalai Lama endorsed a secular work about technology and governance signals its ambition to address questions about human flourishing in the digital age.