Connecting. Image + Text We will start today with the perspective that knowledge is, at least to a large extent, about connections. It follows therefore that the substrates we use to hold our knowledge and the tools we use to interact with our knowledge extend connections. AI Summary Frode Hegland (host), Eric Rangell, Peter Dimitrios,… Continue reading 17 August ’26
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11 Aug ’26
AI summary (Claude Fable) AI: Summary The 11 August 2026 session of the Future Text Lab brought together Frode Hegland, Brandel Zachernuk (briefly, before a standing meeting), Tom Haymes, Benja Gooder, Astral_Druid, and Heiner Benking (listening in from a train). What began as a technical question — can the HTML model element live inside an… Continue reading 11 Aug ’26
May ’26 Journal Recap
May was the month the Lab stopped asking what spatial text might be and started testing what it is — against a demanding user, a demanding document, and the limits of the words we inherited from print. The month opened with a designer’s hands on the actual software and closed with the discovery that the… Continue reading May ’26 Journal Recap
June ’26 Recap
June was the Lab’s figure-and-ground month. What entered the sessions as a borrowing from art theory — Rubin’s reversible vase, Gestalt, notan — was worked steadily downward into perceptual physiology and then outward into a question nobody expected at the start: what is headset work actually for? By the month’s end the Lab had an answer… Continue reading June ’26 Recap
July ’26 Journal Recap
July was the month the Lab’s centre of gravity shifted from talking about building to building while talking. Across the four sessions — 6, 13, 21 and 27 July — a single arc is visible: the cost of turning an idea into working software collapsed, and the conversation reorganised itself around what that makes possible… Continue reading July ’26 Journal Recap
3 August ’26
AI : Summary This session combined three intertwined demonstrations with a wide-ranging discussion on spatializing knowledge. First-time participant Benja demonstrated a prototype writing tool that visualizes deeply nested parenthetical clauses as stacked layers, addressing working-memory limits in complex prose. This was followed by a Game of Life knowledge-sculpture prototype for visionOS and a demonstration of a live Earth-and-space environment… Continue reading 3 August ’26
27 July ’26
Knowledge Objects in a Vibe World AI: Summary The session opened with a live walkthrough of building, running and notarising a native application by conversing with Claude inside Xcode, followed by a demonstration of an existing globe and solar-system app on Vision Pro, and then turned into a sustained inquiry into what a personal knowledge space should actually contain… Continue reading 27 July ’26
21 July ’26
AI: Summary The session centered on how conversational coding inside a native development environment has collapsed the cost and effort of making bespoke software, letting non-programmers prototype working tools for their own letters, notes, and knowledge simply by writing prose — and on what that means for a community of text and hypertext researchers who… Continue reading 21 July ’26
21 July ’26
Mohit Technical Presentation & Frode XR Presentations Two presentations to kick of general dialog.
13 July
The ‘vibe’ of knowledge – Intro We now have LLM’s helping us code inside our coding environment. Frode Hegland has started working with Claude in Xcode and found it surprisingly powerful and is therefore working on an app (open source, free, available and documented, with easy ways to add custom views). The app is based… Continue reading 13 July