About this podcast
Weekly podcast on the future of text from https://futuretextlab.info
Episodes
The newest 20 of 52 episodes
- 9 November '26 · 5 min · Season 11 Episode 2This was the last Monday session before Thursday's Future of Text Symposium at Conway Hall, and it ran as part introductions, part extended demo, part argument about what AI does…
- 2 November '26 · 4 min · Season 11 Episode 1This was the session where several years of Future Text Lab conversation about reading in space turned into things the group could actually see, and in some cases things that…
- 2 Nov '26 (code) · 4 min · Season 11 Episode 2Code report from today's session. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/11/02/2-nov-26-coding/
- 26 October '26 · 5 min · Season 10 Episode 3This session was less of a demo review than last week's. It turned on one question that kept coming back: how a personal knowledge system becomes something other people can…
- 19 October '26 · 4 min · Season 10 Episode 3This 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…
- October Code Review '26 · 5 min · Season 10Having 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…
- 13 October '26 · 4 min · Season 10 Episode 3On 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…
- 12 October '26 · 4 min · Season 10 Episode 2Nine people joined this week's session, which ran on demos rather than an agenda. Two were new to the current group. Chris Gutteridge, a web and data developer at the University…
- 5 October '26 · 5 min · Season 9 Episode 1The Future Text Lab session of 5 October 2026 had no set topic and seven participants, calling in from London, Delaware, Texas, Pristina and California; Mark Anderson was out…
- 28 September '26 · 5 min · Season 9 Episode 4Two newcomers reshaped this session. Kathryn Jones, who describes herself as a non-academic with a passion project, has spent four years building what began as two hundred quote…
- 21 September '26 · 4 min · Season 9 Episode 3This was the first session after the ACM Hypertext conference, so it opened as a debrief. From there it moved through AI in education, AI-assisted development, document formats…
- 7 September '26 · 5 min · Season 9 Episode 1One week to ACM Hypertext. Both of Frode's papers were rejected (he accepts the reviews; the work wasn't ready), so he's there for a demo only — "Tim Berners-Lee was also just…
- 31 August '26 · 5 min · Season 8 Episode 5This session opened from a deliberately simple premise: AI is an external entity. When code is written with an AI in Xcode, the human is the designer or director, not the coder —…
- 24 August '26 · 5 min · Season 8 Episode 5This session marked a shift from talking about tools to distributing them: the meeting opened with the group downloading and running a fresh macOS build of Origami Text…
- 17 August '26 · 5 min · Season 8 Episode 4This 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…
- 16 August '26 · 5 min · Season 8 Episode 3The Week the Image Learned the Way Home ``` [Intro — spoken, low] Sunday to Sunday. Six repos deep. The week the image learned the way home. [Verse 1 — Interatlas] Stared at the…
- 11 August '26 · 4 min · Season 7 Episode 2The 11 August 2026 session of the Future Text Lab brought together Frode Hegland, Brandel Zachernuk (briefly, before a standing meeting), Tom Haymes, Benja Gooder, Astral_Druid…
- 3 August '26 · 3 minThis session combined three intertwined demonstrations with a wide-ranging discussion on spatializing knowledge. First-time participant Benja demonstrated a prototype writing…
- 27 July '26 · 4 min · Season 7 Episode 4The session opened with a live walkthrough of building, running and notarising a native application by conversing with Claude inside Xcode, followed by a demonstration of an…
- 21 July '26 · 4 min · Season 7 Episode 3The session centered on how conversational coding inside a native development environment has collapsed the cost and effort of making bespoke software, letting non-programmers…
