- Author
- Fifteen named contributors, including Maggie Appleton and Simon Willison
- Published
- Updated 18 November 2025
- Kind
- Public manifesto with five principles and an open signatory list
- Original
- resonantcomputing.org/
- Subject
- Society and technology
- Themes
- Who holds the power, Taste and judgment
What it is
A web manifesto drafted by fifteen named people, with a very long list of signers. It argues that AI lets software adapt to each person. It asks readers to sign and to contribute theses.
What it says
- The manifesto says feeds are engineered to hijack attention. It blames the logic of hyper-scale.
- The manifesto borrows architect Christopher Alexander's "quality without a name" and calls it resonance.
- The manifesto says AI lets software respond to each person's context at scale. One-size-fits-all is no longer a necessity.
- The manifesto says computing will be hyper-personalized either way; the question is what it serves.
- The manifesto offers five principles as a starting place: private, dedicated, plural, adaptable and prosocial.
- The signatories commit to building, funding and championing products that embed these principles.
What evidence it gives
The manifesto offers argument and an analogy to architecture. It gives no data, case studies or product tests. Its weight comes from named drafters and a long list of signers.
Interests and limits
The drafters say they are already building tooling and infrastructure for this vision. The principles are broad and untested. A changelog shows wording edits, such as replacing "user" with "people". The page itself does not address costs or objections. It points to a separate evolving list of theses on tradeoffs.
Connections
These links are this wiki's own reading, not claims the sources make.
- The Concept of the Aesthetic. The manifesto borrows Alexander's quality without a name and calls it resonance. Shelley's entry traces how hard such value has been to define. New theories either reduce it to something else or treat it as basic. The manifesto's five principles seem to take the first route.