This is one of the most insightful articles I have ever read on any subject. The implications are almost metaphorical in their proportions.



The question is, will there be a third machine age, and what will it consist of? Are the ages of technology advancing at the same pace as technology? Is there anything unexpected in our future, if not a paradox, then perhaps a new paradigm shift, or 'paroxysm'? What is an epiphany in the age of technology, and what is the role of citizens? How can the individual citizen, as opposed to the economic structure, meet these new superficial 'needs and demands'? At what point do we accept that a 'virtual economics' paradigm is a legitimate structure, or do we need a new intellectual enforcement of realist paradigms? I sense a need for the intellectual economist, and the armchair citizen. It is easy to over-harp on the robot paradigm (which I am not calling a 'paroxysm'), but it seems that some of the new shifts are certainly phenomenological, like robotics. There is a need for some of the under-studied disciplines, imagination, and the kinds of big ideas that are like fall-guys in the industrial cog-wheels. In some ways, I predict, the Silicon Valley revolution is not over (perhaps it IS financially, but that's not my expertise). The industrial revolution of mass-production of small parts, even major industrial implements, is becoming a metaphor which is working its way up into intellectual capital.



If anything, the results should be exponential for quality of life. Otherwise, we are failing to realize a dream which is materially quite real. The potential of computation and applications is only beginning to take off. At an earlier time in history this might have been called 'The Application Age'. Or perhaps that age is still coming upon us.



I point interested researchers to my own products in objective knowledge as an example of the future of applications. See for example, the books The Dimensional Philosopher's Toolkit, Coherent Logic, and How to Write Aphorisms for examples of logic analogous to math that can construct fully knowledge-coherent sentences. Such result would have great implications for the field of electronic applications if applied to virtual reality interfaces.



If there is a third machine age, it may happen very soon, or very far in the future---or somewhere intermediate, if there is a shift in consciousness. Some ideas for that include perpetual motion machines, social consciousness, teleportation, time travel, 'omni-science' and other knowledge applications like 'math soft genius', reality integration concepts e.g. exponency and enhancement, chemical expositivism, and formal semantics for citizenship.