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... @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social #ThirdWAI #Engelbart #AIAugmentation"

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...

What I would do in every time zone. Post.

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...

Join us today, 5PM UK time: futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/

"Meditation", Je Shen, Chinese Artist, 2026

Playing around in Author in Vision Pro today. Update on testing, using, learning. Have look if you like. youtu.be/ijqmQn1QMjQ

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

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...

Feel free to join us later today in our Open Office Hour: futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/

What YouTube suggested I do next. Crazy.

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

Hah!

Absolutely! #BookSky

This looks interesting...

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/

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 #FutureLabhttps://futuretextlab.info/2026/03/24/april-6th-2026/

Perspective on what might be useful to practically work in XR. To kick of discussion today at futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/ youtu.be/VmYoNF7Zu3U

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

ICE and War Funding Can Now Become the Latest Excuse to Gut the Social Safety Net talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ice-and...

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

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”.

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. futuretextlab.info

Perspective

It’s as easy as shutting your effin mouth! And did I mention… it’s free?!

To understand is to stand among.

We're choosing topics today. Join us: futuretextlab.info

Well said. Well written. I wonder what Socrates would have said to that sentiment?

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...

Why on earth should the North Atlantic Treaty Organization support a war started by one of its members in the Strait of Hormuz?...

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/

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.