17 August '26

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, what is the end state?The answers, given in turn by every participant, form the most valuable record of the session and are reported in full below. Around them ran discussion arcs on AI as oracle versus partner, the ownership of knowledge objects, transparency as the basis of trust, and whether document-centred workflows are being made obsolete by agentic, generative interfaces.https://futuretextlab.info/2026/08/17/17-august-26/