What is the new machine age?

In getting our jobs done, humans provide the role of sensing, perceiving, computing, and decision-making. We play these roles in both making and operating machines. For example, automobiles themselves cannot take us from one place to another (even this is changing,). We need to drive by adding our cognitive roles to those dumb machines. The invention and continued progression of different technologies like sensors, microprocessors, algorithms, and machine learning have been forming a technology core for imitating humans’ cognitive role. Hence, like in the past, progress has started to reinvent machines by changing human-centric cognitive capability with this new technology core-cognitive. Hence, we have started witnessing next-generation machines – intelligent ones. (vi)

One of the greatest contributors to the development of machines and their capabilities in enhancing the quality and standard of living of human beings has been the development of the computer – a machine in its own right. Computerisation has propelled the development of the human race at an exponentially faster pace. Computers have also resulted in the appearance of the next age – The Information Age.