Augmenting You
This software is the implementation side of our work on The Future of Text, to work to truly augment your ability to think, write and communicate. As Alan Kay famously said: The best way to predict the future is to invent it and that’s why we are producing software in addition to hosting in the form of ‘The Future of Text’ Symposium, for over a decade. The symposium has resulted in the a series of books, also on ‘The Future Of Text’.
Featured on the BBC World ‘Digital Planet’ Podcast.
Augmenting Documents
In addition to building Author and it’s free PDF viewer companion Reader, we have introduced an approach to making regular PDF documents more richly interactive by including more metadata through what we call Visual-Meta to enable richer interactions.
This is what allows you to copy text from a PDF in Reader and paste it as a citation in Author [3 min video demo], as well as opening up the future for more richly interactive documents.
This is how we are working on augmenting you through augmenting the documents you work with.
Frode Alexander Hegland
& Team
london | 2024