Margaret Boden

Foreword

By Edo Segal

I have spent thirty years at the frontier of technology. I watched the internet arrive, watched mobile reshape everything, watched each tool collapse the barrier between human intention and machine capability. Each transition felt enormous at the time. Each one was a rehearsal.

In late 2025, the machines learned our language. Not programming language. The language we dream in. And when they did, everything I thought I understood about creativity, about building, about what it means to be human in partnership with thinking machines, required a complete reassessment.

This is why Margaret Boden's patterns of thought matter right now, in this moment of vertigo and possibility. While the technology discourse argues about jobs and safety and whether AI is conscious, Boden offers something more