Commenting on what name historians might settle on to label our interesting times, Hilbert notes that this most recent period of ancient and incessant logic of societal transformation took a series of titles between the 1970s and the year 2000.

In chronological order, he recounts, these have included post-industrial society, information economy, information society, fifth Kondratieff, information technology revolution, digital age and information age.

While only time will provide the required empirical evidence to set any categorization of this current period on a solid footing, recent developments have suggested that we are living through different long waves within the continuously evolving information age, writes Hilbert, who holds separate doctorates in communication and economics/social sciences.

Considering the outlook for AI, he sees some already achieved advancementscancer diagnostics, speech recognitionas dazzling.

And in case its been stealthy enough in its march forward to escape the attention it ought to be getting, note well that AI has become an indispensable pillar of the most crucial building blocks of society.

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Prof. Hilbert: 'The merger between biological and AI has already crossed beyond any point of return' - AI in Healthcare