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For today’s meeting: If we have free-flowing text documents in XR (not PDF) and the documents are self contained (not HTML), with useable visual and semantic markup (ePub maybe), what views and interactions might be useful? As a reminder of my mentors: Doug’s work, to my memory, was mostly about addressing and jumping. He used… Continue reading 16 Feb 2026

AI: Summary The session ranged across the lived experience of working with text and knowledge artifacts in XR, the challenge of representing time in spatial environments, the emerging gestural grammar of visionOS interactions, and the broader socioeconomic responsibilities that come with building new knowledge tools. Participants debated how color, scale, and depth might encode temporal information, explored… Continue reading 9 Feb 2026

The session explored spatial authoring and XR-based knowledge environments, with Frode demonstrating a 3D knowledge map prototype derived from meeting transcripts and AI-generated glossaries, prompting a wide-ranging discussion about gestures, selection models, timelines, writing practices, and how immersive systems might augment human thinking rather than replace it. AI: Main Topic The primary focus was Frode’s… Continue reading 2 February 2026

Screens taught us how to freeze a thoughtInk and pixels, lines on paper,Five thousand years of flat replies.–- Now machines can speak our tongueWrite our laws before we’ve begunInfluence where we turn and what we see.The question humming underneathIs who is shaping what we believe. Pre-ChorusWe’re not afraid of minds made fastBut we won’t let… Continue reading ‘We will change what text is’ Lyrics

Hi all, January’s ‘Journal’ entry is now up, including summaries, as well as links and full transcripts: https://futuretextlab.info/2026/01/27/january-2026/ • TEXT & AI Astral posted a very important video yesterday “Yuval Noah Harari Warns AI Will Take Over Language, Law, and Power at WEF” and while we are not fully shunning AI in our work, this… Continue reading Jan/Feb Update

CodePen Demo (Brandel Zachernuk) URLhttps://codepen.io/zachernuk/full/dYaOxM Posted byBrandel Zachernuk ContextShared as an interactive technical demo during discussion of visualization / interface experiments. TopicInteractive visualization, experimental UI LiveInk — Walker IRA 2005 Paper URLhttp://www.liveink.com/VSTF_ReadingOnline_IRA_2005_Walker.pdf Posted byUnclear ContextReferenced as an academic reading about online reading behavior. TopicDigital reading, cognition, annotation Focus-Plus-Context Screen (Wikipedia) URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus-plus-context_screen Posted byUnclear ContextLinked while… Continue reading January 2026 URLs

Journal entry for January 2025. The following text was produced by ChatGPT 5.2 on the 27th of January, fully verified and edited by host Frode Hegland. Abstract During the first month of meetings this year, after a two year Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research project, the Future of Text group convened to explore what kinds… Continue reading January 2026

Not many people would think it reasonable to that a person watching TV would mistake what they see for the full view of reality. Most likely, anyone being presented with such a position would recall Plato’s writing of Socrates telling the Allegory of the Cave. I contend that there is another useful perspective to this,… Continue reading Plato’s Extended Reality

Agenda AI: Summary This session explored whether and how XR environments can meaningfully augment how people read, understand, and relate to complex knowledge, using a concrete but deliberately constrained experiment: presenting a single letter as a spatial, interactive object. The discussion surfaced tensions between play and utility, emotional impact and practical value, and between exploratory artistic research… Continue reading 19 Jan 2026