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The Intelligent Era

This is a distinct technological era characterised by the automation and intelligence that a combination of emerging technologies convey.

Technology has moved in one long continuum and to that extent it is predictable. From automating manual work, from the invention of the wheel and the printing press to mechanical diggers and cranes, then clerical work with data processing and then managerial with decisioning tools and smart systems and now it’s the turn of professionals to be automated. To initially collaborate for a while, then what? What will the role of professional bodies be during this? Will they resist and if so, how much resistance will these highly qualified and motivated people put up to the Intelligent Era?

We’ve lived through the information and Digital eras, and each has profoundly changed how we live, work, research, innovate and play. The Intelligent era is a distinct and new time when we are animating the digital assets we’ve created. When we are applying cognitive and affective artificial intelligence to everyday issues using massive data and real-time data particularly. It is an era characterised by the quantification of everything from human beings and society to structures and machinery in and on the land, sea, and skies. It is a time when everything can be measured, and it will be. The data emanating from this will be analysed at lightening speed and combined with the world’s repository of data and novel outcomes will be proposed. In essence, everything will be hyperconnected and outcomes hyper personalised.

The GDP capacity of a country has traditionally been limited by its population and education and machines was its multiplier, now it’s data, connectivity and a combination of new powerful technologies. This is a time when government policy is the result of an algorithm examining all information and behaviours, attitudes and sentiments and consequences at any level of governance. How do you govern in this environment? What’s the role of a political party? Or even a nation?

When health and wellness is an algorithm and intervention is often pre-symptom. When digital twins let medical research at molecular level interact with millions, or hundreds of millions of sample patients in minutes. This leads to massively personalised medicine and remedies emerging for everything in novel and unexpected ways, even problems we have so far not lived long enough to confront. Will life expectancy reach hundreds of years? what will this mean for the cost of shortening a life in the future? What will it mean for living a life?

Capital therefore generates wealth. How do you share wealth with humans when the term ‘welfare’ is so pejorative? Is universal income the answer? How and when are owners of capitals and machines persuaded to increasingly share the wealth they generate. Is philanthropy the norm associated with wealth generation, and does it increasingly replace state support or even some of the purpose of a country? Is capital and machine generated wealth increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few or is this capability democratised and widely shared?

On warfare, is it the size of an army and its equipment that will win the day or will it be the machine generated capabilities across intelligence and surveillance and the means to produce new machines and systems as required using 3D/4D and advanced additive manufacturing methods to fight on the ground. Creating unmanned land, sea and air vehicles of innovative and specific capability for the immediate task. How will ground be taken and kept? Who will have the greatest military might? How does the world govern this – will the UN have a role?

Machine capability will increasingly link disconnected data looking at unknown issues producing new solutions. Generating new solutions to problems we aren’t experiencing yet. A time when we will be massively able to accurately forecast everything. Then what do you do with the unpredictable human being?

The intelligent era is currently unknown and unexperienced. Understanding how AI, IoT Internet of Things), IoN (Internet of Nano devices), IoB (Internet of behaviours) and mass satellites will connect across 6G and faster networks, accessing Yottabytes of data, analysed by exponentially faster quantum machines in real-time. Plus, a range of other technologies which are emerging at the same time.

Shouldn’t we try and understand the Intelligent Era a little more and try and understand how the silo’d development of these and other technologies will combine and alter the world and how we live on it?