Edge City gathers frontier minds to prototype new ways of living and building together. From October 18 to November 15, 2025 we're hosting our flagship popup village in the Patagonian lakeside town of San Martín de los Andes.

Learn more about Edge City Patagonia: https://www.edgecity.live/patagonia

David Hoffman from Bankless sat down with Edge City co-founder Timour Kosters to hear what Edge City Patagonia is and how it can spark new tech, startups, art, friendships, and breakthroughs.

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Timour: https://x.com/timourxyz

David: http://x.com/TrustlessState

Bankless: https://x.com/Banklesshq ABOUT EDGE CITY

Edge City convenes people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society in popup villages across the globe.Follow us on X | Learn more CHAPTERS

(00:00) Intro to Edge City

(00:42) Why we build monthlong popup villages

(02:28) What to expect?

(03:10) David's experience at Edge Esmeralda

(04:39) Designed for serendipity and collaboration

(05:15) What's unique for Edge City Patagonia

(06:04) How to maximize your experience

(06:57) Co-working and co-creation

(08:03) Make your own adventure

(08:43) Human connection and social structures

(10:43) How to join Edge City Patagonia

Audrey Tang (Taiwan’s first Digital Minister) sits down for a fireside chat with Edge City’s Timour Kosters to talk about digital democracy, the philosophy of plurality, civic technology, and what the rest of the world can learn from Taiwan’s democratic experiments.

Recorded at Edge Esmeralda, held in Healdsburg, CA, from May 24 - June 21, 2025.

LINKS

Audrey Tang: https://x.com/audreyt

Timour Kosters: https://x.com/timourxyz

Edge Esmeralda: https://www.edgeesmeralda.com

ABOUT EDGE CITY

Edge City convenes people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society in popup villages across the globe.

Follow Edge City on Twitter: https://x.com/JoinEdgeCity

Learn more about Edge City: https://edgecity.live/

CHAPTERS

(00:00) Introduction: Audrey Tang and the Idea of Plurality

(01:53) From Civic Hacker to Minister

(04:48) The Sunflower Movement and GovZero

(09:42) Tech for Collective Action: Open Data and Pandemic Response

(13:01) Democracy as Defense: Radical Transparency in Taiwan

(17:12) Global Applications: Bowling Green, Japan, and California

(26:00) What is Plurality? From Conflict to Collaboration

(31:02) High-Bandwidth Democracy and Civic Muscle

(35:07) Real-World Plurality in Japan and California

(43:07) AI, Education & Civic Competency

(47:50) Q&A: Gen Z, Radical Interoperability and Future Tools

(56:57) Q&A: DAOs, Community Design and the Power of Forking

Glen Weyl builds new social technologies for collective decision-making, plural coordination, and democratic innovation. He leads the Plurality Institute and co-founded RadicalxChange to turn experimental ideas into institutional prototypes.

In this conversation, Glen Weyl and host Timour Kosters explore the intersection of technology, democracy, and civic infrastructure. From Taiwan’s civic tech to new models of money and collective decision-making, this chat covers the intellectual foundations of the Plurality movement.

Recorded at Edge City Austin, held in Austin, TX, from March 2-7, 2025.

Links

Glen Weyl: https://glenweyl.com/

Timour Kosters: https://x.com/timourxyz

About Edge City

Edge City convenes people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society in popup villages across the globe.

Follow Edge City on Twitter: https://x.com/JoinEdgeCity

Learn more about Edge City: https://edgecity.live

Chapters

(00:00) Glen Weyl's work and the vision for Edge City

(01:43) The growing chasm between technology & democracy

(04:46) From Star Trek to Snow Crash, the cultural collapse of future visions

(06:18) Two threats to democracy: chaos and control

(09:54) Network societies vs. network states

(12:01) The 3 political ideologies of the 21st century

(15:22) Why Plurality is the most viable path

(18:05) Lessons from Taiwan - GovZero, Pol.is & civic tech

(22:50) Japan’s AI-augmented grassroots politics

(31:53) New models of money

(37:18) Designing experiments at Edge City popup villages

(44:25) Decentralized governance, power vacuums & quadratic voting

(53:04) Community currencies and plural governance models

(58:35) From temporary popup village to permanent city

(01:03:52) Integration, not exit

(01:12:11) Identity and community recovery

(01:15:49) Mathematics and Plurality, final thoughts