13 April '26

This session wove together three interconnected threads: the design philosophy behind generative writing tools (specifically Author), the emerging framework of “core and contextual” writing spaces as a bridge between flat displays and XR, and the challenge of what meaningful interaction in XR actually looks like for knowledge work. The conversation moved from AI's role in education and writing practice, through the cognitive science of outlining, to a provocative closing framing: that current XR interfaces are the punch cards of their era, and the question before this community is what the equivalent of Engelbart's 1962–1968 project would look like today.