life-itself / life-itself/secondrenaissance
Add HTML/markdown versions of papers on site
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Description
## Motivation
Papers are currently linked to PDFs (Google Drive). We should add dedicated web pages for each paper with the markdown/HTML content rendered on-site.
**Benefits:**
- Better reading experience — mobile-friendly, accessible, no PDF viewer required
- SEO — content is indexed by search engines rather than locked in an opaque PDF
- Easy deep-linking to specific sections
- Consistent styling with the rest of the site
**Tradeoffs to consider:**
- Formatting-heavy PDFs (tables, figures, sidebars) may need care when converting
- Maintenance: paper updates need to be applied to both the web version and the PDF
## Approach
We already have the markdown source for most papers. Pattern would follow `/papers/tech` (paper 5), which already has a dedicated page. Each paper gets a route like `/papers/1` or `/papers/what-and-why`, rendered with the site layout. Keep the Drive PDF link as a "download / print version" option alongside.
## Papers
- [ ] Paper 1 — What & Why of a Second Renaissance
- [ ] Paper 2 — How of a Second Renaissance
- [ ] Paper 3 — From Polycrisis to Metacrisis
- [ ] Paper 4 — Developmental Spaces
- [ ] Paper 5 — In Tech We Trust (already done ✓)
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by examining the existing /papers/tech page for Paper 5 and the markdown sources for Papers 1–4. Follow that page’s site-layout and route pattern, keeping each paper’s Google Drive PDF as a download or print option. Done means Papers 1–4 have readable on-site HTML/markdown pages with appropriate routes and the listed papers are updated accordingly.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- html, markdown
- Domain
- content, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100