Author: admin-future

The following two pieces are AI orchestrated compositions based on The Future of Text V and VI. Process described below.     A Sound of Text:     A Quiet Sound of Text: Lyrics We’ve been living in a world of flat and frozen lines where the pages never move and the wisdom’s hard to find… Continue reading A Sound of Text

AI: Summary This meeting focused on extensive discussions about text presentation in XR/VR environments. The conversation explored fundamental questions about how text should be displayed and interacted with in spatial computing contexts, including debates about rectangles versus non-rectangular containers, the challenges of maintaining readability and context in 3D spaces, and the balance between 2Dlegacy formats and new 3D possibilities. Peter Wasilko demonstrated how he… Continue reading 8 December 2025

AI Meeting Summary This meeting focused primarily on logistics for an upcoming in-person gathering in London, with participants confirming their travel arrangements for Wednesday and Thursday. Fabien Bénétou demonstrated multi-user collaboration examples in XR, showing how users can interact asymmetrically (some in headsets, others on desktop) and how collaboration sessions can be replayed using timestamped messages. The discussion… Continue reading 24 Nov 2025

Frode Alexander Hegland When the substrate for text was still, we could not expect it to do anything by hold our thoughts. When the substrate for text became digital the substrate became active and we got interactions with text beyond anything previously possible. We got copy and paste, spell check and clickable links. Simultaneously we… Continue reading Text that does something | Explicit Lyrics

Patrick Lichty
 Abstract This essay examines developments of text in extended reality (XR) by tracing its conceptual lineage through historical electronic media research. While XR allows text to inhabit immersive three-dimensional spaces, this development builds on decades-old visions of electronic and spatial textuality on experimental interactive tropes. Pioneers Ted Nelson, Steve Holtzman, and Danny Brown… Continue reading Structuring Text in Electronic Space: XR’s Futures Through the Lens of Historical Media Research


I’d like to  use my time to say what I would like to be able to do in AR/VR for *working* and what my core wishes and hope are, and ask what others would like as a baseline for actually working in that environment. File management and editing is key. I feel like we’re potentially… Continue reading Keith Martin

Mariusz Pisarski The future of text, apart from all desired qualities that relate to its augmentation structures and mechanisms, needs to be above all future-proof. How can this be achieved when humanity – and the Earth itself – is facing existential threats of climate crisis, overpopulation, and dictators who write the text of the future… Continue reading A postcard from (hyper)reality