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Weekly podcast on the future of text from https://futuretextlab.info
Frode hosts Future Text Lab, a technology show with 36 episodes published.
This session combined three live demonstrations of new work with an unusually direct turn of self-examination: midway through, the host put a question to the group that it rarely asks explicitly — if this work succeeds,
The Week the Image Learned the Way Home ``` [Intro — spoken, low] Sunday to Sunday. Six repos deep. The week the image learned the way home. [Verse 1 — Interatlas] Stared at the ceiling of the sky — every naked-eye star
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 tr
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 parentheti
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
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 letter
This session centered on a live demonstration of Origami Text, a peer-to-peer communication experiment in which each message is a self-describing, plain-text JSON file carrying Visual-Meta-style metadata, built almost th
This session explored what the fundamental elements of a spatial knowledge environment should be, launched by an AI-assisted inquiry into neuroscience and psychology which concluded that connections, not objects, are the
This session carried the month's figure-and-ground theme into a concrete new use case, prompted by a first-time participant from the world of corporate law: the headset as a space for contested negotiation and dispute re
This session deepened the group’s figure-and-ground thread into a genuine reframing: the difficulty of showing relationships in a 360-degree knowledge space is not a problem of where to route a connective line, but a pro
This session continued the month's theme of figure and ground applied to reading and thinking in XR : when potentially every digital document is available at once, how do we decide what to bring forward and what to leave
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 sp
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-gene
Introduction to the Thinking Music aspect of The Future Text Lab.
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 card
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 inter
This session brought together regular members and two newcomers — one joining from Mumbai, another from Moscow — for a wide-ranging exploration that moved from a live demonstration of Author on macOS and Apple Vision Pro
Dave Millard is working hands-on in the Map view, testing node selection, movement, layout, and spatial organization. The conversation moves from immediate UX feedback into a deeper discussion about how AI should be inte
Across the four sessions of April 2026, the Future Text Lab circled a persistent and sharpening question: what, precisely, would compel someone to put on a headset and do serious knowledge work? The month opened with Fro
This session explored the intersection of AI in education, the crisis of academic publishing and document ownership, and the question of what a future-proof knowledge document format might look like. The conversation mov
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