The information age is over, welcome to the machine learning age

You could say the information age started in 1965 when Gordon Moore invented Moore's Law (a prediction about how transistors would double every year, later changed to every 18 months). Some would argue the information age started long before then, when electricity replaced steam power. In their book Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future, economic gurus Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson suggest that we're now in the "machine learning" age. In the book, the authors explain why the transition from steam power to electric power took a long time.