Frode Hegland - The Future of Text

THE FUTURE OF TEXT

Edited by Frode Alexander Hegland

First Published 2020.

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This collected work is Copyright Future Text Publishing and Frode Alexander Hegland.

The PDF edition of this work is made available at no cost and the printed book is available from Future Text Publishing (futuretextpublishing.com) a trading name of The Liquid Information Company.

This work is freely available digitally, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro and Shinglewoode by Timothy Donaldson in the PDF and printed versions.

ISBN: 9798556866782

If you are reading this book in the Augmented Text Tool Reader on macOS, which was developed to demonstrate some of the editors ideas about interactive text, you can interact with the text in experimental ways:

• Copy As Citation: Copy and paste text into a visual-meta aware word processor, such as Author (see the Visual-Meta section in this book) and it will paste as a full citation. This includes fields for both author and editor.
• Find: Select any text and do cmd-f (Find) to see only the sentences which contain the selected text. Any headings above any occurrences will also appear, and in the case of this book that will be the name of the author of the articles so you can quickly see who wrote about the same text.
  cmd-f to exit out of this view or ESC .
• Glossary: Select any text and do cmd-f (Find), as above, however, if the text is included in the glossary, it will appear at the top of the screen. There are glossary entries for all the contributing authors names.
  cmd-f to exit out of this view or ESC .
• Fold to Outline: Do cmd - (minus) to fold the document into an outline showing only the headings. Fold more or less levels with cmd-plus and cmd-minus.
  Note: For a very long document, such as this book, it will take a few seconds to index the contents before this command becomes active.
• n to see all Names.
• h on selected text to Highlight. h without selecting text to View All Highlights.
• s on selected text to Speak the text.
• Full Screen: Reader works best in full screen: ESC to go into and out of full screen.
• Instant Look-Ups: Select and text and launch the free companion application Liquid (installed separately) using the keyboard shortcut you have assigned.
  You will then get the Liquid bar with the selected text. You can now either mouse through the options or use the keyboard shortcuts, such as r for References and then w for Wikipedia or e for Etymology.
  You can also translate text and convert numbers.

Author, Reader and Liquid are available from: http://augmentedtext.info

I am grateful for the encouragement and support of my friend and mentor Doug Engelbart.

I would further like to thank Vint Cerf for supporting the Symposium over the years and to Ted Nelson for continuously opening my mind to how wonderful the Future Of Text can be.

I thank my perfect wife Emily Maki Ballard Hegland (and perfect mother to our son Edgar) for her support, encouragement and patience over the years and Edgar himself, who never ceases to make me smile.

I would also like to thank my parents Turid and Ole Hegland, and my brother Henning.

Sarah Walton helped me to formulate my perspective of liquid information and Howard Rheingold helped me understand the roots of our Silicon Valley world.

Jacob Hazelgrove realized my dream of building a word processor (Author) and reader application (Reader). Roman Solodovnikov and his team built Liquid in many versions over the years and most recently re-invigorated LiSA.

The academic community at WAIS at the University of Southampton, including my PhD advisors Dame Wendy Hall and Les Carr, as well as David Millard, Chris Gutteridge, Mark Anderson (particularly for hypertext history) and many others, has been a fertile thinking ground for my personal understanding of what text is and, in particular, what academic text can be.

I am further grateful for my friends for their many fantastic perspectives who have helped me see things just a bit differently over the years, including (in a very random order) Harsha DeSilva, Paul Presley, Houria Iderkou, Livia Polanyi, Janine Earl, Stephen Fry, Bjrn Borud, Aspasia Dellaporta, Joe Corneli, David Price, Tom Standage and Bruce Horn, my first computer hero who became a friend. Jane, Gian and Termini has also provided me with a heaven of a workspace outside and Paul and Tim insidethank you, environments makek a difference, whether physical or digital, as the genius of environment design Therese always remidned me.

I thank Valentina Moressa for helping communicate and promote the book to a wider audience than I could ever have managed on my own, with valuable assistance from Julia Wright, Keith Martin for help with design/Adobe InDesign and Tim Donaldson for font choices, including his personal designed Shinglewoode which is used for blockquotes.

Finally, and most of all, a huge thank you to all the contributors who truly made this book!

Dedicated to my son Edgar and my father Ole.

This book is a Future Text Initiative: thefutureoftext.org/initiative.html

Frode Alexander Hegland

UK

2020

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