> "The next big thing will be a lot of small things." > – Dutch designer Thomas Lommée In 1973, EF Schumacher published the book *Small is Beautiful - Economics as if People Mattered*. It is one of the guiding spirits of this manifesto. In the book, Schumacher argued that we need to embrace "the evolution of small-scale technology, relatively nonviolent technology, and technology with a human face." Today, we can see the continuation of his legacy in thinkers as diverse as Nate Hagens, Tristan Harris and adrienne maree browne. Nate Hagens has assembled powerful arguments for pulling back on the type of energy-intensive technologies we have become accustomed to rely on. He thinks of technology as a "vector for energy". In other words, technology always accelerates energy use. He asks us to look around our room, and notice how every technology we've added simply increases the baseline of energy usage. Tristan Harris, a founder of the Center for Human Technology, and focal character of the documentary Social Dilemma, has dedicated his life to persuading the tech industry to develop "technology wiht a human face". Sadly, technologies like Facebook (its name notwithstanding) are anything but. adrienne maree brown says, "Small is good, small is all." She thinks fractals is the best way to understand the world. "This may be the most important element to understand – that what we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system."