The Aperion Age?

"Most of us get up in the morning, get dressed, and go to work. We work some normal job, come home, have dinner and the next day start all over again. While we are living in that type of existence, the technologists are busy at work. They are in a race with the technologists from other companies and countries to come up the newest and fastest anything."

I read an article the other day that we might be entering what will be known as the Aperion Age. At first, I had to catch myself. I know I don't have the best vocabulary in the world, but it has been a while since I have been skunked on knowing what a word meant. True confessions - I had to look this one up. What I found was this - Aperion is a Greek word which means basically limitless or infinite. The article I read could then be correct. With all the technologies coming together at the same time, there is no telling where all this could lead us.

Last night (after a four-hour hiatus with no power), I watched something on YouTube which was fascinating to say the least. It was a computer-generated battle between the US and ROK forces against the Norks. A big part of the battle was fought with who had the best AI. The US and ROK forces had robot drones, which could surveil, shoot with automatic weapons, or drop bomblets. They also had small robot type tanks which had automatic weapons on them. The Norks had no such thing, and the battle belonged to the team with the best AI - US and ROC.

Why do I point this out? What is going to change this decade? The better question is what NOT is going to change this decade. Yesterday morning I read about Sam Altman's newest "toy". OpenAI, which Altman is the CEO of, recently announced the release of Strawberry will be coming very soon. Altman said Strawberry could be the bridge between Narrow AI and AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). Why is this so important? AGI will allow machines to think on their own. It is the steppingstone to the long awaited (or feared) Artificial Super Intelligence. That is when the machines will be smarter than humans. What are the possibilities? Infinite. 

Not to be outdone by the advances in AI, quantum computing is also making headway. These machines are scary fast. How fast? A simple quantum computer with 30 qubits, is capable of performing at the same level as a digital computer performing over a trillion operations per second. And now 30 qubits is so yesterday. The newer quantum computers are capable of using 1,000 qubits. What will be the limit to these incredible machines? Limitless. A good fit for the Age of Aperion.

Most of us get up in the morning, get dressed, and go to work. We work some normal job, come home, have dinner and the next day start all over again. While we are living in that type of existence, the technologists are busy at work. They are in a race with the technologists from other companies and countries to come up the newest and fastest anything. They are making things from the very, very small, to the very, very fast. This is the hidden world we live in. Once in a while an article will appear about this hidden world that looks more like science fiction than science. This is all happening right now, right here.

Alvin Toffler touched on a bit of this in his book Future Shock. Part of our future shock will happen this decade when seeing robots proliferate and do some human labor, as well as sharing the road with autonomous cars - will become commonplace. What else is coming this decade? Uknown. Some of it has not even been invented as yet. But it is coming. As is the Age of Aperion. Buckle up and get ready, as it is coming.