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Working on The Future of Text, currently with a focus on XR.
https://futuretextlab.info
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Tom Haymes
3 days ago
The answer to any meaningful question isn't an answer. It's possibilities. Engelbart showed us the vision in the 60s. AI gives us the tools to complete his vision.
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The Return of the Creator
Building Our Own Semantic Spaces
https://bit.ly/returnofthecreator
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Demo sparked discussion on cognitive load, adaptive interfaces & a new format; Origami Text. Vygotsky's zone of proximal development was proposed as a design principle — interfaces should scaffold the next cognitive step, not flatten complexity.
futuretextlab.info/2026/04/28/6...
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4 May 2026 – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/04/28/6-may-2026/
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Chris Farnell
8 days ago
What I would do in every time zone. Post.
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Yesterday: AI levels the educational playing field but our document formats haven't kept up. We explored whether ePub or a new format could finally give us ownable, citable, shareable knowledge & why that's a social problem as much as a technical one.
futuretextlab.info/2026/04/27/2...
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27 April ’26 – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/04/27/27-april-26/
10 days ago
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Join us today, 5PM UK time:
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
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Jim
14 days ago
"Meditation", Je Shen, Chinese Artist, 2026
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Playing around in Author in Vision Pro today. Update on testing, using, learning. Have look if you like.
youtu.be/ijqmQn1QMjQ
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8 mins of looking at working with Author spatial on Apple Vision Pro.
YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)
https://youtu.be/ijqmQn1QMjQ
14 days ago
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Rabih Alameddine
17 days ago
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
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Future Text Lab: Explored the tension between sitting and moving in XR knowledge spaces, peripheral semantic multiplexing, second-hand gestural modifiers, and whether we're in our 1962 or 1968 moment of augmented thought.
#XR
#SpatialComputing
futuretextlab.info/2026/04/20/2...
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20 April ’26 – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/04/20/20-april-26/
18 days ago
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Feel free to join us later today in our Open Office Hour:
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
18 days ago
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What YouTube suggested I do next. Crazy.
20 days ago
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Future Text Lab: Can today's XR interfaces be our generation's punch cards? We explored generative writing, core vs. contextual space, and what Engelbart's 5-year mission would look like now.
futuretextlab.info/2026/04/13/1...
#XR
#KnowledgeWork
#GenerativeWriting
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13 April 2026 – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/04/13/13-april-2026/
25 days ago
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Hah!
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Rae Radford
26 days ago
Absolutely!
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This looks interesting...
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25 days ago
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Join us online today, 13th of April. 8:30-10:30 Pacific | 11:30-1:30 Eastern | 4:30-6:30 UK | 5:30-7:30 CEST
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
25 days ago
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Yesterday's session: Spatial nodes should furl, unfurl & not scroll. The HyperCard moment for XR knowledge work is close — but we're still finding the metaphors.
#SpatialComputing
#XR
#KnowledgeWork
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about 1 month ago
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Perspective on what might be useful to practically work in XR. To kick of discussion today at
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
youtu.be/VmYoNF7Zu3U
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'best of both words'
YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)
https://youtu.be/VmYoNF7Zu3U
about 1 month ago
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Working in XR is not really reading or writing in the traditional sense, it is ‘born digital’ in an entirely new dimension. We look at addressing what this might mean. Feel free to join us. Monday 6th of April
futuretextlab.info
about 1 month ago
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Josh Marshall
about 1 month ago
ICE and War Funding Can Now Become the Latest Excuse to Gut the Social Safety Net
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ice-and...
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ICE and War Funding Can Now Become the Latest Excuse to Gut the Social Safety Net
Congressional Republicans have been musing about the possibility of a second reconciliation...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ice-and-war-funding-can-now-become-the-latest-excuse-to-gut-the-social-safety-net
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Tom Booker
about 1 month ago
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Can XR help us think with text, not just read it? The session explored spatial knowledge environments, reading science, and the tension between human novelty-seeking and computational consistency.
futuretextlab.info/2026/03/24/3...
#TextForThought
#XR
#SpatialComputing
#KnowledgeWork
#FutureOfText
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https://futuretextlab.info/2026/03/24/30-march-2026/
about 1 month ago
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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P
about 1 month ago
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.
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Future Text Lab: Exploring what knowledge interaction in XR truly is — not reading, not writing, but spatial navigation. From flow states to LLM verbosity and cave paintings to the Vatican, the group reached for a language that doesn't yet exist.
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Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info
about 2 months ago
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Perspective
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about 2 months ago
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Pan-sexual; We Love Pans
about 2 months ago
It’s as easy as shutting your effin mouth! And did I mention… it’s free?!
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To understand is to stand among.
about 2 months ago
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We're choosing topics today. Join us:
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about 2 months ago
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Well said. Well written. I wonder what Socrates would have said to that sentiment?
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about 2 months ago
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Future Text Lab: Can knowledge be sculpted to fit a new medium — or does it need to be reimagined entirely? From AI concept extraction to spatial bookshelves and the neuroscience of memory, today's session asked: if you can't take it with you, what's the point?
futuretextlab.info/2026/03/16/m...
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March 16th – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/03/16/march-16th/
about 2 months ago
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Why on earth should the North Atlantic Treaty Organization support a war started by one of its members in the Strait of Hormuz?...
about 2 months ago
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Today in the Open Office Hour we'll kick off our discussions around the movement of knowledge and the movement of thought. Feel free join us. 4:30-6:30 UK For information:
futuretextlab.info/2026-welcome/
and for today:
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
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2026 – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
about 2 months ago
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Very much worth a listen.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Understand, How Reading Made Us, 1. How Reading Made Our Brains
Did learning to read rewire your brain? With James Marriott.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sdyn
about 2 months ago
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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...
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March 9th – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/03/07/march-9th/
about 2 months ago
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Monday the 9th of March. Join us!
futuretextlab.info/2026/03/07/m...
2 months ago
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Questions and approaches to working with text as a tool for thought.
youtu.be/hEg76BsLEMk?...
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2 June 2025 - Frode Hegland: More Visually Interactive Text
YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)
https://youtu.be/hEg76BsLEMk?si=dVjbRMT2sxxcDnn1
2 months ago
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It is important to not have to see everything all the time, but to have access to everything relevant to you:
youtu.be/1Hu6bsUHVHQ
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51 seconds of focus with large information environments
YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)
https://youtu.be/1Hu6bsUHVHQ
2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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Work continues with the Map view in the Apple Vision Pro. Hopefully a full release this week!
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Abigail Thorn
2 months ago
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
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Well this is interesting. Maybe one day there will be vigorous arguments on when spatial text first really arrived.
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
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MIT Technology Review
2 months ago
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...
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We’re putting more stuff into space than ever. Here’s what’s up there.
There’s a thin layer of human-made stuff enrobing the planet. A data dive into the anthroposphere.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/24/1132755/anthroposphere-putting-more-stuff-into-space-than-ever/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
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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.
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2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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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
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23 Feb 2026 – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/02/19/23-feb-2026/
2 months ago
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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
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23 Feb 2026 – Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/02/19/23-feb-2026/
2 months ago
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Erlend Sogge Heggen
3 months ago
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.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝
3 months ago
Wow.
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