This was the first session in almost a month and the first time Eric Vicenti met Eric Rangell, which prompted an opening riff on what "in person" means. Kathryn Jones, drawing on years of producing interactive live-stream theatre, recalled the constant pushback that if you aren't in the same room it isn't live, which she found absurd given that broadcast sport is a billion-dollar "live" industry. Frode connected this to the Apple Vision Pro, where a newly released stereoscopic 180° horror film gives one of the strongest "you are there" experiences he has seen, and argued that for presence the clever camera angles should be dropped: just give the audience a stage, life-size and high-resolution, and the sense of being in the room does the rest. Tom Haymes framed this historically: film spent its first twenty or thirty years staging plays in front of a camera before discovering what the medium could do, early television and radio drama were likewise live, and XR will need its own skill set that nobody has yet developed. Kathryn's example of an immersive exhibit that placed her in a Viennese square, and Tom's idea of walking through the Vienna of The Third Man or an XR murder mystery, kept the theme of spatial presence alive for the rest of the meeting. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/10/19/19-october-26/ (https://futuretextlab.info/2026/10/19/19-october-26/)
18 Oct 2026
October Code Review '26
Having worked with Claude in Xcode since the 7th of July, I have developed and released a new version of Interatlas but most importantly upgraded Author and our community Origami Text app (which is now also taking over Reader’s name and functionality), with the following report on what was done and how it was done. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/10/18/october-code-review/ (https://futuretextlab.info/2026/10/18/october-code-review/)
16 Oct 2026
13 October '26
On 13 October 2026, the day after a Future Text Lab session, Frode Hegland and Mark Anderson had a long one-to-one call, with Frode working from the quiet upstairs room of a café in town. It began with Mark clarifying that his question the previous day about how references are stored had not been a criticism but an attempt to understand what information was actually available, a thread that came back later in the call. From there the conversation ran across three connected subjects. The first, and the one that took most of the time, was the design of spatial workspaces for knowledge work: how an environment that contains everything in a library, every document, concept and citation, can show almost nothing by default and still let its user reach anything quickly. The second was the relationship between maps and writing, including Mark's long-held view that a map is for planning rather than composing, and what that means for Author and for the new concept-and-document workspace Frode is building. The third was publishing infrastructure: citation data as ground truth, the Citation Style Language file Mark has built for ACM, and whether academic authoring tools are ready for EPUB, tested live by exporting an EPUB from Google Docs and opening it in Origami Text. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/10/15/13-october-mark-frode/ (https://futuretextlab.info/2026/10/15/13-october-mark-frode/)
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11 May '26
Published 11 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Abstract thought was freed. Script gave continuity outside the mind to read. Philosophy and math and science followed after writing came. But print is linear. The author sets the frame. Foley saw the internet like oral performance. Non-sequential flow. Mallory and Cage already tried to let the reader go. Living Stone says vision is an image it's transmitted through. Mona Lisa's expression shifts depending on your view. Robert Irwin left the studio for context over object space as a continuum, not isolated projects. Mohit said we need to intervene during the encounter, not after, not by searching. […]
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