the Age of Intelligence: How AI Will Transform Life in Coming Decade

Within ten years, AI will help decide whether you get the job, the loan, the diagnosis, and the price you pay.Most books about AI ask what it can do. This one asks who will own it, and what that means for your work, your money, and your rights.AI already recommends, ranks, approves, denies, predicts, and optimises. It shapes what we see, what we are offered, what we are charged, and increasingly what we are allowed to do next. It is becoming the infrastructure of modern life.Gerard McNamara, who has spent more than thirty years in the electronics industry, shows that AI is following the same path as railways, electricity, telecommunications, and digital platforms. A technology emerges. Society becomes dependent. Ownership concentrates. Regulation arrives too late.This book examines the questions that will define the coming decade: - Will automation create prosperity, or leave millions with less income, security, and purpose?- Who controls the systems that shape hiring, lending, diagnosis, surveillance, and care?- What happens when public services, businesses, and governments rely on algorithms most people cannot see or challenge?- Will AI make healthcare, education, transport, and finance fairer, or deepen existing inequalities?- Can democratic societies govern AI in the public interest before private control becomes locked in?This is not a dystopian warning, and it is not a celebration of technology. It is a measured, well-researched account of a change already under way, and a case that the decisions made in this decade will be extraordinarily difficult to reverse.Written for the general reader. No technical background required.