FRODE HEGLAND
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Working on The Future of Text, currently with a focus on XR.
https://futuretextlab.info
Today in the Open Future Text Lab: figure & ground + peripheral vision Time & how to join:
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The Society of Authors
3 days ago
Do you have good intentions of committing to a regular morning writing routine, but find that all too often the time gets frittered away with news, emails and other distractions? If so, this workshop is for you.
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⢠Future Text Lab ⢠We are eager to grow the community. This is a non-commercial project & very casual but also very dedicated to the topic. Come check out the site to see previous sessions to judge by yourself.
futuretextlab.info
Open Lab every Monday 4:30-6pm UK
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Is showing a connection a line-routing problem ā or a signifier problem? We reframed relationships in 360° space via Norman's affordances, asked what a node shows when closed, and watched one AI brief another to render our own ideas.
youtu.be/6rHgL25CnTg
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22 June 2026
YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)
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Tom Haymes
11 days ago
In my latest Substack at
augmentingintelligence.substack.com
, I argue that AI may have finally given us Vannevar Bush's associative trails. Read the first of four parts here:
augmentingintelligence.substack.com/p/never-ask-...
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Tom Haymes | Substack
Tom Haymes is a professor, author of Discovering Digital Humanity, and creator of the Knowledge Navigator. He explores how AI and systems thinking can augment human intellect. More at: ideaspaces.net....
https://augmentingintelligence.substack.com
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Figure & ground in XR: if everything is available at once, that's the problem, not the dream. We explored selective access, the cost of choosing, writing as thinking, AI chat logs as visible thought-trails & more.
youtu.be/4tgcLEHTNiE
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15 May 2026
YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)
https://youtu.be/4tgcLEHTNiE
14 days ago
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Dr. Mar
19 days ago
Happy Wednesday.
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Jasmine šš
28 days ago
this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month š³ļøāšāØ
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"...your research reminds us that meaning is not merely found in texts ā it is created through them." Mikhail Seliverstov, a collaborator from long ago sent this to me today, on my birthday. What a great phrasing of what I am trying to do. I just wanted to share it š
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Figure and ground in XR ā authorship as negotiation between what you have and what you make. From clay bulla to Warburg's wall, the real challenge isn't reach but learning to build your own frames.
futuretextlab.info/2026/05/27/1...
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https://futuretextlab.info/2026/05/27/1st-of-june-2026/
28 days ago
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Today we are looking at figure & ground, document and space for thinking in XR. Feel free to join us, 4:30 UK time, online:
futuretextlab.info
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Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info
28 days ago
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For Monday's session on The Future of Text I invite you with a piece of music:
youtube.com/shorts/02WRi...
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it's new. that's why.
YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)
https://youtube.com/shorts/02WRilwbVwk?feature=share
about 1 month ago
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Iāve started a podcast. Itās called āthinking musicā. Itās my way of getting a different perspective on the work we do with text, tools for thought and XR. If you like this type of thing maybe have a listen :-)
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Thinking Music - YouTube
AI co-created music based on the work I do on the future of text, with a focus on knowledge work in headsets, designed to provoke thinking around the work, t...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx4DnFWaXV9eKYpxrUlT4nhGU0yA1DcB
about 1 month ago
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The Royal Society
about 1 month ago
We are very happy to announce the 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year, in fields from astronomy and cancer research to mathematics and biotechnology.
#RSFellows
royalsociety.org/news/2026/05...
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ExceptionalāÆscientistsāÆelectedāÆas Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society
Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UKās national academy of sciences.
https://royalsociety.org/news/2026/05/new-fellows-announcement-2026/
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Max Kennerly
about 1 month ago
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Spatial Sections now scroll to source text in Author for visionOS. The EPUB vs YAML container debate deepened, touching stand-off markup, switchable contextual libraries, and AI's dissolution of format boundaries.
futuretextlab.info/2026/05/19/1...
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https://futuretextlab.info/2026/05/19/18-may-2026/
about 1 month ago
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Please feel free to join us 4:30 UK time today as we continue our journey into the possible futures of text.
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
about 1 month ago
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An update on how a document can be opened up into Nodes for reading in whatever orientation you prefer, while connected to the traditional linear document. This is a big step for the project, I hope you like it.
youtu.be/OSUA-rAUnSg
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Sections Update in Author visionOS
YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)
https://youtu.be/OSUA-rAUnSg
about 2 months ago
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Write in a Thinking Space. Author for macOS. Please try it, please feel free to ask me any questions.
www.augmentedtext.info/author
about 2 months ago
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Join us today in our Open Office Hours session.
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
about 2 months ago
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John Scalzi
about 2 months ago
I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.
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Tom Haymes
about 2 months 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.
bit.ly/returnofthec...
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#ThirdWAI
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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 ā interfaces should scaffold the next cognitive step, not flatten complexity.
futuretextlab.info/2026/04/28/6...
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4 May 2026 ā Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/04/28/6-may-2026/
about 2 months ago
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Chris Farnell
about 2 months 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 ā26 ā Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/04/27/27-april-26/
2 months ago
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Join us today, 5PM UK time:
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
2 months ago
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Jim
2 months 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
2 months ago
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Rabih Alameddine
2 months 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 ā26 ā Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/04/20/20-april-26/
2 months ago
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Feel free to join us later today in our Open Office Hour:
futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
2 months ago
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What YouTube suggested I do next. Crazy.
2 months 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 ā Future Text Lab
https://futuretextlab.info/2026/04/13/13-april-2026/
3 months ago
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Hah!
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Rae Radford
3 months ago
Absolutely!
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This looks interesting...
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3 months 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/
3 months ago
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Yesterday's session: Spatial nodes should furl, unfurl & not scroll. The HyperCard moment for XR knowledge work is close ā but we're still finding the metaphors.
#SpatialComputing
#XR
#KnowledgeWork
#FutureLabhttps://futuretextlab.info/2026/03/24/april-6th-2026
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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
3 months ago
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Working in XR is not really reading or writing in the traditional sense, it is āborn digitalā in an entirely new dimension. We look at addressing what this might mean.Ā Feel free to join us. Monday 6th of April
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3 months ago
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Josh Marshall
3 months 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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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/
3 months ago
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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P
3 months 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 mentorsā grants evaporate over āwokeā.
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Future Text Lab: Exploring what knowledge interaction in XR truly is ā 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
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3 months ago
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Perspective
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Pan-sexual; We Love Pans
3 months ago
Itās as easy as shutting your effin mouth! And did I mention⦠itās free?!
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To understand is to stand among.
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