6 April '26

The 6 April 2026 session of the Future Text Lab was a wide-ranging exploration of what spatial knowledge nodes should look like, feel like, and be used for in XR environments. Grounded in Frode Hegland's introductory "Best of Both Worlds" presentation — which he prepared partly for Apple — the group examined the furl/unfurl paradigm for nodes in space, what granularity of content belongs in them, how thinking and publishing are fundamentally different media, and whether spatial computing has yet found its HyperCard moment. Historical predecessors from HyperCard to Zettelkasten to Hyper Words were traversed alongside live demonstrations, while the writing process itself — sketching, core-dumping, polishing — became a mirror for understanding what a spatial thinking environment should do.