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hegland.bsky.social
The profile picture is from the Curia in the Forum in Rome. It was quite the thing to be there, hence my odd expression. https://thefutureoftext.org
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 31 days ago • 878 comments

Are we ever going to embrace digital canvases and start thinking outside the paper box? My latest blog: "Unflattening Ideas" (ideaspaces.net/unflattening...) @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social @xkcd.com

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I put together a 5 min video on the discussion on folding and unfolding Cube & Matrix, as discussed last week, with the aim of stimulating further possibilities. Please tell me what you think of this approach: futuretextlab.info/2025/03/30/c...

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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 42 days ago • 138 comments

Join us on Monday to see what we have been up to in VR. If you have a headset you can join interactively. futuretextlab.info for the schedule, links, timing & more info. All who are interested in knowledge work in XR are very welcome indeed. We look forward to dialog.

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Saw this.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

New showreel for my studio, Liquid City. We accepting new clients, so please consider us for all of your AI/XR design, prototyping and production needs 🌐 liquid.city #design #technology #AI #XR #consulting #agents #agency

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

@dgrigar.bsky.social giving a talk on virtuality in The NEXT today at Tedx at Marshall University.

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

The presentation today which I have been ‘stressing’ over and which has helped me firm up quite a bit of the workflow. More to come! futuretextlab.info/2025/03/06/a... (Next will be the data intersection with XR however)

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 67 days ago • 1801 comments

On Monday 3rd March we'll be discussing 'Authoring Volumes' in XR. For more information on this open session please have a look at futuretextlab.info/2025/02/17/w... including timing, link and more.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I think I had a bit of a breakthrough with an issue I have thought about on and off for years and would greatly appreciate your perspective. I put together a 4 min video to present what I am thinking about. It would be great if you could have a look: youtu.be/t8izodlERhY

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

“What part of diversity, equity, and inclusion do you have a problem with?” www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 77 days ago • 9 comments

Best Dungeons & Dragons joke I've ever heard: "Only a game created by nerds would have 'charisma' as a fantasy ability." Got any other contenders?

submitted 77 days ago • 67 comments

Our perspective on a writing 'Cube' youtu.be/u_zjfF1n0tE

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Are you Cultivating Curiosity ahead of #HSLG Conference in March? Are you a busybody zigzagging through distantly related topics? A hunter holding a sustained focus? A dancer linking disparate topics? Check out this fascinating Scientific American article: www.scientificamerican.com/article/wiki...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Woohoo! 'Readers in British Library Reading Rooms can from this week access digitised newspapers on the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) for free, for the first time since the cyber-attack.'

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Summary and recording of @dgrigar.bsky.social presentation of The Next is now available: futuretextlab.info/2025/02/17/1...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

25 years ago, I wrote my take on Internet and democracy: www.patreon.com/posts/27417189

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Listen in. Fabulous to spend an evening in debate with this exceptional Panel, with so much expertise. I hope you enjoy my contributions, scattered throughout - including on the role of librariand now and in the future. #AI #ML #Librarians #KnowledgeSpecialists #Libraries @cilip.bsky.social

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

The new issue of Leonardo Reviews is available. Check out the review of Laurene Vaughan's The Impact of a PhD on Design: International Perspectives (Reviewed by Charles Forceville): leonardo.info/reviews

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Techdirt is easily one of the best independent journalism sites on the internet. They're often one of the only sites effectively reporting on critical topics that we need to know about. We need them, and they deserve our support.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

This is quite simply a perfect demo of an amazing system. youtu.be/mQc4UAG5tHs?...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Well this is huge! Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Do feel free to join if you are interested: Authoring in XR – a Themed Discussion. futuretextlab.info/2024/12/18/j... Afternoon Europe time, Morning US time.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

AUTHORING IN XR On Monday the 27th of January we’ll be hosting a discussion around authoring in XR, please join us. Below is more information including a 5 min preview video to hopefully spark dialog and different perspectives: futuretextlab.info/2024/12/18/j...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Just received "Web Browser Engineering" by Pavel Panchekha & Chris Harrelson Yes, you can get it for free at browser.engineering yet I feel it's such a deep and important topic that it deserves a permanent place on my physical shelf. Eager to dive in!

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

On Monday the 27th of January we’ll be hosting a discussion around authoring in XR and you are very welcome to join us: futuretextlab.info

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

The record of today’s session on ‘Text in Non-Euclidian Space’ is now up on: futuretextlab.info

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

Volume V of The Future of Text is now available! futuretextpublishing.com/vol-5/

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

I have a couple of updates to share. #1: Stuart Moulthrop's and my "Pathfinders" project, funded in 2013 by the @neh-odh.bsky.social has been reviewed in "Reviews in DH" by Hannah Ackermans. It was a labor of love for us and one that seems to have endured: reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/pathfind...

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

Update #2: "The Future of Text Volume V," ed. by Frode Hegland is out! If you're interested in XR, AI, & other technologies impacting text, you'll find over 40 articles on these topics. Funded by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation futuretextpublishing.com/vol-5/

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

Is the new jag a smooooothed out cybertruck?...

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Matsuda: “You can’t fix surveillance capitalism by improving its UX” Re: Meta VP quoted as saying “We’re all haunted by [Matsuda’s] HYPER-REALITY video… Every [AR] pixel that we light up should be worth its weight in gold.” Yeah, Meta missed the point of @liquidcity.bsky.social’s cautionary tale

submitted 167 days ago • 1 comment

Fireside chat with Vint Cerf @dgrigar.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

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Discussion with Vint Cerf around my 'Author' word processor for macOS: youtu.be/gOVkBMrCTC0?...

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.

submitted 185 days ago • 86 comments

So I'm back. Planning to spend more time here. X has become a bit toxic of late...

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

idk, in my opinion sending out an urgent message to people who have no way of receiving it because all methods of communication have been destroyed, in english which they don’t really speak, looks a lot like posturing for a western audience lads

submitted 560 days ago • 22 comments

@wang.social I read about your thoughts on the future of books. Would you like to contribute a piece to volume 4 of The Future of Text? futuretextpublishing.com

submitted 561 days ago • 1 comment

Future Text Lab weekly discussion 2nd of October is now up. As usual, quite a bit of rambling, as well as a bit about the symposium this week and more. youtu.be/L7WTqpVwvQE?...

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