Very much worth a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We explored annotation as knowledge infrastructure — from Jamie Blustein's field study of how students mark up paper to Frode's vision of annotations as spatial knowledge objects in XR. #FutureOfText #Annotation #XR #KnowledgeManagement #SpatialComputing futuretextlab.info/2026/03/07/m...

Monday the 9th of March. Join us! futuretextlab.info/2026/03/07/m...

Questions and approaches to working with text as a tool for thought. youtu.be/hEg76BsLEMk?...

It is important to not have to see everything all the time, but to have access to everything relevant to you: youtu.be/1Hu6bsUHVHQ

XR for Conferences & knowledge work with live demos from Ken Perlin & Frode Hegland. Sam Brooker introduced ACM Hypertext 2026. Key question: is spatial computing for navigating or creating knowledge? futuretextlab.info/2026/02/19/m... FutureOfText #XR #Hypertext #SpatialComputing #KnowledgeWork

Work continues with the Map view in the Apple Vision Pro. Hopefully a full release this week!

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

Well this is interesting. Maybe one day there will be vigorous arguments on when spatial text first really arrived. www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Earth’s a medium-size rock with some water on top, enveloped by gases that keep everything that lives here alive. Just at the edge of that envelope begins a thin but dense layer of human-built, high-tech stuff. Take a look at what’s up there: www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/24/1...

Dialog questioning of whether AI has something similar to a human ‘Default Mode Network’, or background processing. My feeling is that Artificial Intelligence cannot achieve Artificial Consciousness without escaping from only prompt-response mode. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6uu9e...

What to do when the term is too long? This relates to how to deal with quotes and other longer text in nodes. futuretextlab.info

Future Text Lab: How do you show a citation in space? What makes XR genuinely different from a big monitor? The group explored spatial knowledge design, AI as infrastructure, and the hunt for a HyperCard moment for extended reality. futuretextlab.info/2026/02/19/2... #XR #SpatialComputing

Join us for discussions around authoring in XR, including questions of how to handle different types of Nodes, including Citations. 8:30-10:30 Pacific | 11:30-1:30 Eastern | 4:30-6:30 UK | 5:30-7:30 CEST futuretextlab.info

In an age of “infinite productivity” it has never been more important to be working on the right thing. Ask the wrong questions and you’ll be producing an infinite amount of the wrong thing.

Wow.

Explored foldable "origami text," debated HTML vs JSON for spatial documents, saw demos of Author — all circling the question of how to make knowledge truly spatial before big tech locks it down. #FutureOfText #SpatialComputing #XR #OpenStandards #Hypertext futuretextlab.info/2026/02/15/1...

Maybe we should focus on thinking about augmenting dialog, more than augmenting academic discourse only? In conversation with Doug Engelbart 2005: youtu.be/5bdCUmrtGrg

Will you join us? 4:30 UK time on Zoom: futuretextlab.info/2026/02/15/1...

Once again, a reminder that the "free speech" crusaders were always cynics operating in bad faith

This Ancient Egyptian board game is almost 4,000 years old! Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Wow.

If we can’t stand for human rights here and abroad, we can’t credibly fight fascism anywhere. Palestinian freedom is tied to our fight against authoritarianism at home. You cannot defend democracy while aligning with anti-democratic interests like AIPAC.

ICYMI

Well said. Problematic on many levels.

A laptop computer is just a a rectangular box. It should not be the be all and end all of where we store and interact with our knowledge. We need to start taking the potential of XR more seriously. Agree?

Walking into knowledge changes everything. The group explored gestural grammar in XR, the poetry of vagueness in time representation, and why text's generality is its superpower in spatial computing — all while asking who these tools should serve. futuretextlab.info/2026/02/02/2... #FutureOfText

Eugen Gomringer. Untitled (o), 1952

Lovely physical interactions by Jony Ive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wv1...

A classic, how to read a book: youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ?...

Your periodic reminder that the expression about "a few bad apples" does not mean that the rest are fine, it means that the rot spreads from the bad ones and corrupts the whole barrel

I just read Adorno’s 1952 essay on fascism, and found his point about the orality of the fascist demogogue and associative irrationality of their speeches. Obviously Trump’s style, but perhaps also social media? LLMs?

Today’s session explored spatial authoring in XR, 3D knowledge maps, timelines, writing paradigms, and how immersive systems and AI might augment human thinking rather than replace it. #FutureOfText #XR #SpatialComputing #KnowledgeMaps #AugmentedIntelligence futuretextlab.info/2026/02/02/2...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I imagined a thin mask made using self-adaptive photochromism material to conceal identity and escape AI surveillance www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Time for Taylor Swift’s folk/protest album. There’s only so many albums you can make about your own life/relationships, especially when they’re going well. (Ask me how I know, lol.) Can you imagine? Earth-shaking.

Future Text Lab: XR reading, spatial annotations, walkable meeting archives, digital beanbags, and interoperable knowledge systems reshaping how communities think together. #FutureOfText #XR #SpatialComputing #KnowledgeDesign #Metaverse futuretextlab.info/2026/01/22/2...

The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

I wrote this today after the news that the US will no longer be there for us allies, therefore at least partly withdrawing from NATO. A really troubling situation. It will color my view going forward. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zzd28...

Interesting options for upgrades to ACM Digital Library now: dl.acm.org/premium

Important perspective from Greenland.

Israel bulldozes anything that smacks of justice, peace or basic human values www.ft.com/content/c36a...

Future Text Lab: Exploring what happens when documents become places you can walk into—probing XR not as a solution, but as a medium still discovering its questions. #FutureOfText #XR #SpatialKnowledge #DigitalScholarship #ExtendedMind youtu.be/lMn1TaVvPiE

The work of Doug Engelbart with a musical angle. AI co-orchestration of my late mentor's work and philosophy. youtu.be/QPkIUDA8ekI

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I just had a thought when looking at a cursor on my Mac, which changes slightly depending on what it can do. Maybe have this for XR, where you can look at your hand to see what gestures are possible?..

Wow. America, America.

Good point.