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Further explorations into figure and ground. AI: Summary This session of the Future Text Lab continued the month’s theme of figure and ground — foreground and background — by asking how, in XR and spatial computing, a person decides what to bring forward to work on and what to leave in the periphery when potentially every digital… Continue reading 15 June 2026

Naming & Figure & GroundAI: Summary This wide-ranging session, held in the hours before Apple‘s Worldwide Developer Conference, circled around a single underlying question: what is the right relationship between a person, their knowledge, and a designed space — physical or in XR. Conversation moved fluidly between flow states and active engagement, the perceptual default of the human… Continue reading 8 June ’26

Figure & Ground

Human reviewed Claude summary of Meeting between Mark Anderson and Frode Hegland: Document formats & ACM publishing The conversation opened on pragmatism around scholarly formats. Frode noted that having Author export EPUB Origami Text is a nice luxury but not submittable to ACM, which runs on TAPS and uses JATS. He emailed Wayne (ACM publishing’s… Continue reading 29 May 2026

Figure & Ground : Thought & Documents in Space We will look further into Spatial Thought. AI: Summary This session, framed around the theme of “figure and ground” (document versus workspace), explored how authoring in spatial computing should handle the vast surrounding context — references, notes, citations, and AI-generated material — that informs a piece… Continue reading 1st of June 2026

Long Documents in XR AI Summary: This session centred on the evolving spatial interface of Author for visionOS, using Douglas Engelbart’s 1962 paper as a large-scale test document. The conversation moved from concrete design questions — how section cards should look, how selection states should be rendered, how visual differentiation by category or search could work in an… Continue reading 25 May 2026

AI: Summary This session ranged across the current state of Author for visionOS, the creative workflow behind AI-generated video advertising, the long-running format debate between EPUB and YAML as document containers, the role of stand-off markup for layered annotation, and a broader philosophical thread about whether AI is dissolving the boundaries between file formats, applications, and the very act of writing itself.… Continue reading 18 May 2026

Mohit Yadav Presentation AI: Summary The session centred on a guest presentation by Mohit Yadav exploring how meaning arises through dynamic assemblages of known and unknown elements during encounters with the world, arguing that current tools fail to intervene at the moment of interaction and that a new category of “navigational systems” is needed to… Continue reading 11 May 2026

AI: Summary This session centred on a guest presentation about hypertext infrastructure, which opened into a wide-ranging discussion about what it means to build shared foundations for knowledge work. The presentation reframed hypertext as an activity — the forming of relationships between things — rather than as any specific technology, and argued that the field’s… Continue reading Office Hours 4

Office Hours 201 — Meeting Notes AI: Summary This inaugural office hours session brought together participants from poetry, knowledge tools, and AI-for-the-commons research for an exploratory conversation about sense-making, creative synthesis, and the future of text. The discussion centred on a tool called Hyghlighter and its capacity to support what was termed “frame building” — the cognitive… Continue reading Open Office 1