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...

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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.

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

DHS Releases List Of Mothers Driving Cars

Future Text Lab: Exploring how a single letter becomes spatial knowledge in XR—citations as objects, meaning through movement, and text freed from the page. Join us next Monday! futuretextlab.info #FutureOfText #XR #SpatialThinking #KnowledgeDesign #VisionOS

Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...

We do need to keep showing the world what the future might be, like Sculley with the Knowledge Navigator, we need to do with XRL youtu.be/lzrcT04DZHs?...

Knowledge won't be flat again. youtu.be/v2FmLKJgdX0

David Millard explored Frode Hegland's experiments with Author and Reader in visionOS, showing basic mappings of knowledge. The insights from Dave's exploration are both fresh and profound: youtu.be/XlDqmX3sNpM?...

The simple act of walking in knowledge change how we 'see' it. How can we make this as useful as the potential suggests it might be?... youtu.be/obr5II3D6vE

Future Text Lab: This week we explored how letters become living knowledge in XR—where environment, reader intent, and spatial context matter more than pages, and workspaces matter more than documents. futuretextlab.info/2025/12/29/5... #FutureOfText #XR #SpatialComputing #KnowledgeDesign #Hypertext

The interesting (to me anyway) of what should appear first in the menu. The command or the option to edit the command? I think the revision helps a lot. Silly detail or interesting for discussion?

True FILTH.🤬

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

The Future of Text VI is now available! futuretextpublishing.com/v6/

Last 2025 meeting grappled with the project's central question: what is a knowledge object in VR? Debated WebXR vs game engines for spatial publishing, explored force graphs for virtual world navigation, & discussed timestamped LLMs as historical artifacts. #XR futuretextlab.info/2025/12/29/2...

This message hits hard.

Future Text Lab: Exploring how text, metadata, and XR reshape reading, authorship, and curation—when books become bindable, readers become curators, and machines become audiences. futuretextlab.info/2025/12/18/2... #FutureOfText #XR #Hypertext #DigitalReading #ScholarlyCommunication

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved to be so different from other primates

Source: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically

Future Text Lab: We explored whether wisdom can emerge from dynamic, spatial knowledge systems. From embodied protocols to XR libraries, the group examined metadata, serendipity, disagreement, and why wisdom lives in interaction, not documents. futuretextlab.info/2025/12/20/1... #FutureOfText #XR

A deep dive into XR-era text: citation’s print legacy, AI as iterative dialogue, stretch text as cognition, and why focused themes matter for inclusive research communities. 1 December 2025 futuretextlab.info/2025/12/01/1... #FutureOfText #XR #AI #KnowledgeDesign #Hypertext

Pretty much completely realistic. AI for creation is just, well, wow... www.instagram.com/reel/DScRu2o...

Exploring how XR could transform libraries into living knowledge spaces—where metadata, serendipity, and spatial context support wisdom as change, not certainty. Books still matter. Interfaces matter more.
#FutureOfText #XR #KnowledgeDesign #Libraries #Metadata futuretextlab.info/2025/12/20/1...

To me this signals the start of a strange new era. It took me about a min to create this. What do you think it will mean to have anything turned into anything else, so to speak, so easily? A pop song for your revision next week?... youtu.be/JlRV4q_xqDQ

If you have not seen this, please have a look. It's a classic. I would contend that what stands in our way to be able to do this completely now is not the AI, but the access to the data. Agree? youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0?...

The Future of Text '25 was wonderful this year, with a very warm atmosphere and perfect presentations, even featuring the legendary Alan Kay as surprise guest. Videos and pictures and more is now online at thefutureoftext.org/future-of-te...

If you had a super simple and elegant way to TAG your documents, what tags would you like to have available?

it's finally happening

Testing new commands for interactions in the Map in Author. youtu.be/0vcyW6Hwlfs

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Dear Apple why can't I have a launcher anymore? Why do I have to type in the name of the app I want to use, or try to find it in an ever changing list of icons?

"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic." Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Join our discussion on thinking with spatial information! futuretextlab.info/2025-schedule/

Questions to the community. Alternative questions, not only answers, are of course also very welcome:

Video now up: This Future of Text meeting focused on Patrick Lichty's presentation about virtual narratology and spatial information structures in XR environments. futuretextlab.info/2025/09/01/1...

Today's meeting focused on Patrick Lichty’s presentation about virtual narratology and spatial information structures in XR environments. JOIN US ANY MONDAY! futuretextlab.info/2025/09/01/1...

Information Landscapes: Muriel Cooper at the TED5 Conference. A true much watch for anyone interested in information and presentation. youtu.be/BhrZHkdc2rU?...