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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

Karl Smink In an era where storytelling is expanding beyond paper and pixels into immersive experiences, we are redefining what it means to write, to read, and to connect. But no matter the medium—text, xR, or otherwise—stories remain vessels for truth. He Still Stands, my upcoming novel, is one such vessel. It is a story… Continue reading He Still Stands: Writing Neurodivergence into the Mythic Mode

Leon van Kammen Rinsema’s saying, “veel waarnemen is weinig in zich opnemen,” (dutch) which translates to “observing much is absorbing little,” highlights the distinction between the quantity and quality of information processing. It suggests that a superficial observation of many things leads to a lack of profound understanding. Eventhough Rinsema was a classical painter, this… Continue reading Text & Rinsema effects

Mei-Lin Fung Proposing a Framework for Augmented Collective Cognition (ACC): Updating Engelbart’s Human Augmentation System for AI, XR and VR
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 The Augmented Collective Cognition (ACC) Framework applies Spatial Computing (XR/VR) to bridge the cognitive gap caused by current complexity challenges. It aims to realize the historical visions of augmented intellect (Engelbart), scalable collective intelligence… Continue reading Proposing a Framework for Augmented Collective Cognition (ACC)


Vincent A Murphy How we are witnessing the fastest mass cognitive transition in recorded history We are living at the twilight of the Printocene.For roughly five hundred years, print has been the dominant medium through which civilisation met information. It made knowledge feel solid, scarce, and sacral. Books were heavy objects, expensively made and reverently… Continue reading Twilight of the Printocene & the Dawn of Ludicity

Tom Haymes “But the scanty wisdom of man, on entering into an affair which looks well at first, cannot discern the poison that is hidden in it… Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.”  – Machiavelli,… Continue reading Object to Idea: Information Paradigms at the Dawn of AI

Tess Rafferty I have written and produced on over 500 episodes of television. I have also written a series of novels. And as a reader, I devour murder mysteries like they’re pie the day after Thanksgiving. Two years ago I started learning Ai filmmaking which made me curious about other emerging technologies and how they were… Continue reading Augmented Creativity: The Future Of Writing In XR

Sam Brooker 
“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed” – nor, indeed, is our enthusiasm. More than once, in faculty meetings or discussions with industry colleagues, I’ve heard a world-weary the AI genie isn’t going back in the bottle or a beleaguered it is very clever spoken with the resignation normally… Continue reading The Chloropyll Moment