Working on The Future of Text, currently with a focus on XR. https://futuretextlab.infohttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mtv7wjsne22eThe Lab ran the first Origami Text build together, debated how 3D and live data travel inside plain EPUBs, heard Herculaneum's graffiti reframed as Roman social media, and asked what shape time should take in XR — Sankey flows of ideas beside the papers. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/08/24/24-august-26/25 Aug 2026 06:47 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtv7wjsne22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mttjyqxfck2vWe will discuss and demonstrate the origami approach to advanced future documents. Join us 4:30 UK time! futuretextlab.info https://futuretextlab.info24 Aug 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttjyqxfck2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mtesvv4bnk2uFair point [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Aug 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtesvv4bnk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mtcjc7f4v222This week the Future Text Lab watched a flat image unfold back into a living 3D world — metadata as a doorway, not a footnote. + More. Join us next Monday? https://futuretextlab.info/2026/08/17/17-august-26/17 Aug 2026 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtcjc7f4v222https://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mtbmgpo4wc22We 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. 4:30 UK. Join us! futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/ https://futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/17 Aug 2026 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbmgpo4wc22https://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3msxg7vomqc2rWe meet to discuss the future of text, the future of thought, particularly in XR. Care to join us? Serious dialog, friendly, inclusive atmosphere & free. Future Text Lab Open Sessions – Mondays. futuretextlab.info13 Aug 2026 10:19 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxg7vomqc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mstfquxocs2rConstellations only make sense from where you stand. From the model element in EPUB to knowledge navigators, negotiated glossaries, and zero-sum games in VR, the Lab asked how tools could let us see from each other's vantage points. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/08/11/11-aug-26/11 Aug 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstfquxocs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3msghcirm322rMy latest efforts in visionOS, Interatlas. youtu.be/clijnJCruPo https://youtu.be/clijnJCruPo06 Aug 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3msghcirm322rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3ms77h7tujk2aNested-clause writing tools, Game of Life knowledge sculptures, and walking inside a live 3D Earth — the Lab explored how spatial computing and AI coding can turn conference proceedings into navigable knowledge spaces. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/08/03/3-august-26/03 Aug 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms77h7tujk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mrrhss5fnc2yAI is certainly not only doing fancy autocomplete. It is most certainly understanding from a functional sense. Exactly how I don't think we know, but this is definitely a new kind of understanding. Do you agree?29 Jul 2026 08:07 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrrhss5fnc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mrnpyb6xjk2kWhat belongs in a knowledge space, and what shape should it take? A session on building spatial tools by conversation, on weight and friction as information channels, on walking as thinking, and on giving every captured idea its provenance. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/07/22/27-july-26/27 Jul 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnpyb6xjk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mrkxrca7jk24This is how the Interatlas is doing. It's all created through Claude inside Xcode. youtu.be/KoROtaj64sE https://youtu.be/KoROtaj64sE26 Jul 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrkxrca7jk24https://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mrjxiyrsls24The only thing that's hard about coding with Claude INSIDE Xcode is to stop thinking and talking about it. This is simply amazing. youtu.be/srjxt4sorgU https://youtu.be/srjxt4sorgU26 Jul 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrjxiyrsls24https://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mriu56shns2vNo joke: How to code a solid macOS, iOS or visionOS app in Xcode using Claude with no coding experience at all: youtu.be/srjxt4sorgU https://youtu.be/srjxt4sorgU25 Jul 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mriu56shns2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mrewt6qjhs2oCoding with Claude in Xcode in 2 mins, followed by 10 mins of supplemental examples. youtu.be/srjxt4sorgU24 Jul 2026 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrewt6qjhs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mraeanqq6k25Are there any tools for thought people who would like to meet up? I'd love to visit your group online or in London and you are very welcome to join our group any given Monday. futuretextlab.info https://futuretextlab.info22 Jul 2026 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraeanqq6k25https://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mqls74sgcc26Fascinating brave new world... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f32W5BEzWN014 Jul 2026 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqls74sgcc26https://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mqkohkz6b226Future Text Lab: Live vibe-coded demo of Origami Text — JSON 'letters' as a peer-to-peer medium. We rebuilt views mid-meeting, revisited link types, ZigZag and local-first risks, and asked: can AI make us system designers? https://futuretextlab.info/2026/07/11/13-july/13 Jul 2026 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqkohkz6b226https://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mq2b23ppf22nWhat belongs in a knowledge space? Perhaps not things but connections — knots on threads. We debated reconstructive memory, whether original ideas exist, conformity in education, and knowledge sculptures in AR. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/07/06/6-july-2026/07 Jul 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2b23ppf22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mph7xni2yk2oFuture Text Lab: The headset as a negotiation arena — laying out positions in space, moving issues from contested to resolved, and bringing AI into the room. Plus peripheral vision as design: colour for state, shape for identity, text only when you look. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/06/23/29-june-26/29 Jun 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mph7xni2yk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mpggktczms2iToday in the Open Future Text Lab: figure & ground + peripheral vision Time & how to join: futuretextlab.info29 Jun 2026 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpggktczms2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mp6wmpszk22a• Future Text Lab • We are eager to grow the community. This is a non-commercial project & very casual but also very dedicated to the topic. Come check out the site to see previous sessions to judge by yourself. futuretextlab.info Open Lab every Monday 4:30-6pm UK26 Jun 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp6wmpszk22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3mox34gohxc2aIs showing a connection a line-routing problem — or a signifier problem? We reframed relationships in 360° space via Norman's affordances, asked what a node shows when closed, and watched one AI brief another to render our own ideas. youtu.be/6rHgL25CnTg https://youtu.be/6rHgL25CnTg23 Jun 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mox34gohxc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/hegland.bsky.social/post/3modzsibb3k2aFigure & ground in XR: if everything is available at once, that's the problem, not the dream. We explored selective access, the cost of choosing, writing as thinking, AI chat logs as visible thought-trails & more. youtu.be/4tgcLEHTNiE https://youtu.be/4tgcLEHTNiE15 Jun 2026 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:wxtzmwpups2k32cmlgc2frhs/app.bsky.feed.post/3modzsibb3k2a