Andrew Feenberg

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The sentence that cracked something open for me was this: "What human beings are and will become is decided in the shape of our tools no less than in the action of statesmen and political movements."

Andrew Feenberg wrote that in 1999. Twenty-six years before Claude Code. Twenty-six years before the winter I describe in You On AI, when the machines learned our language and everything I thought I understood about building needed reassessment.

I have spent my career inside the instrumentalist assumption — the belief that tools are neutral, that they do what you tell them, that the quality of the output depends entirely on the quality of the input. That assumption is the backbone of my amplifier metaphor. Feed AI care, get care at scale. Feed