VERSE 1 — Female Spatial knowledge maps in Vision Pro — that’s where we began, Frode built a tool in Author where you walk through what you scan. Select a concept, find its links, distribute it in space, Not reading, not just writing — it’s a whole different place.
Tom photographed his bookshelves, six-fifty titles strong, Fed them into Claude and Gemini, been working all week long. A Knowledge Navigator — not the nodes but what’s between, The spaces where ideas meet, the gaps that go unseen.
HOOK It’s not reading. It’s not writing. It’s walking into what you know. Map the knowledge, lose the paper — That’s the direction we should go.
VERSE 2 — Male Brandel pushed on value systems — does the tool direct the mind? Polish isn’t decoration, it’s the centuries of refined. Engelbart said capability, but fluency comes first — A button in the wrong position breaks the flow before the burst.
Long-form reading in a headset? Probably not the move. But spatial navigation of ideas — now that’s a groove. Reading a map is not the same as reading like a book — Topological, topographical — that’s the angle worth a look.
HOOK It’s not reading. It’s not writing. It’s walking into what you know. Map the knowledge, lose the paper — That’s the direction we should go.
VERSE 3 — Female LLMs flood the screen with words at four hundred per minute, Brandel said: if you’re just skimming, what’s the value that is in it? Flow state needs continuity — surprise will break the thread, Meter the output, slow it down, give signal space instead.
Tom said he gets into flow — just skim, go back if missed, But Brandel wasn’t satisfied, the tension still persists. Peter said that skimming’s just a skill we all have learned, But personalization’s coming — output that is earned.
VERSE 4 — Male Paper activates connections digital can’t quite make, But digital gives you cross-links — both matter, both are at stake. The materiality of information, how we hold and turn a page — We need those gestures in the virtual, that’s the challenge of the age.
Frode said: the room is the knowledge, the headset’s just the key, He keeps it home now, walks around it — that’s where it should be. Context versus contents — clean the space but keep the thread, Your bookshelf, physical or virtual, should connect to what you’ve read.
HOOK It’s not reading. It’s not writing. It’s walking into what you know. Map the knowledge, lose the paper — That’s the direction we should go.
VERSE 5 — Female Vibe coding democratizes — the barrier shifts from tech to thought, The conceptual level of what tools should do can’t be bought. Most people won’t invest in workflow — that’s just human nature’s pull, But those who give a damn will find the space incredibly full.
Tom’s building for himself right now, iterating every day, Brandel said: a person should have shaped that anyway. LLMs solve the friction, but the vision has to come from you — Frame the information first, then let the model follow through.
VERSE 6 — Male McLuhan in the back of mind — hot media, cold, and space, Three-dimensional media is still virgin territory to trace. Tom said every XR thing he’s seen still looks like a map — Frode said walk into it, there’s something past that gap.
Cave paintings fit the rock’s own shape, a torch made them alive, Our ancestors made knowledge spatial — we’re just learning to revive. The Vatican‘s long corridor — maps below and heaven above — A sixteenth-century XR space, built out of faith and love.
HOOK It’s not reading. It’s not writing. It’s walking into what you know. Map the knowledge, lose the paper — That’s the direction we should go.
OUTRO — Female We’re scratching at a language for a thing without a name, Ted Nelson coined “intertwingled” — we need words for this new game. What is it to work with knowledge when the medium breaks the mold? That question stayed wide open — and the full talk will unfold.
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