Resonant Computing Event May 13 (SF)
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📍Next gathering: Resonant Computing Collective — San Francisco, May 13.
An evening of casual demos and conversation on resonant computing in practice, organized by interface.click ("a community of computer kiddos who make interfaces & startups") and hosted at tiat, an SF art gallery for creative technologists. 6:00–9:00 PM PDT. Space is limited. Join us.
🌱 ICYMI: The Resonant Computing Lab is now funding resonant projects.
Launched at the NYC gathering in March, the Resonant Computing Lab is a new initiative from Analogue that backs builders putting the manifesto into practice. Reach out if you want to apply for funding or become a patron.
✍️ From the signatories
Since the manifesto went public in December, the signatory list keeps growing, including builders, writers, and researchers from across the industry:
"The manifesto’s vision to design technology that deepens comprehension and human connection is exactly what’s needed now. To me, resonance is the infrastructure for the next era of how we build, think, and connect.” — Hiten Shah, Crazy Egg CEO
đź’ Food for thought
Where do we go from the manifesto (ATmosphereConf) — A conversation with Mike Masnick on how LLMs are breaking the "build precious software → accumulate user data → rent it back" business model. What gets built next is still up for grabs.
AI populism’s warning shots (Jasmine Sun) — On how AI backlash has stopped being a debate about utility and become a movement about societal change and loss of agency.
The Wisdom of the People's Computer Company (Cabinet of Wonders) — Sam Arbesman on the People's Computer Company — a 1970s community advocating for computing that serves people instead of controlling them, before the first personal computer even existed.
🔎 Principles in practice
Relational Tech — A collective building "tools crafted by, with, and for neighbors," software whose value is the strength of the relationships it deepens, not the engagement it captures.
Imbue – A company building tools for individuals to create, customize, and control their own AI software, rather than ceding it to centrally-controlled platforms and agents so that "humans can be actors, not acted upon." Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu and Head of Policy Matt Boulos are manifesto signatories.
Building, writing, or reading something resonant? Email resonant-computing-feedback@googlegroups.com
