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The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s
The Cloud Revolution How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s Author:Mark P. Mills The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what’s really coming. — According to Mills, a convergence of technologies will drive an economic boom over the coming decade, one that historians will characterize as the “Roaring 2020s.”... more » It will come not from any single big invention, but from the confluence of radical advances in three primary technology domains: microprocessors, materials, and machines. Microprocessors are increasingly embedded in everything. Materials, from which everything is built, are emerging with novel, almost magical capabilities. And machines, which make and move all manner of stuff, are undergoing a complementary transformation. Accelerating and enabling all of this is the Cloud, history’s biggest infrastructure, which is itself based on the building blocks of next-generation microprocessors and artificial intelligence.
Single inventions don’t drive great, long-cycle booms. It always takes convergent revolutions in technology’s three core spheres -- information, materials, and machines. Over history, that’s only happened a few times.
We have wrung much magic from the technologies that fueled the last long boom. But the great convergence now underway will ignite the 2020s. And this time, unlike any previous historical epoch, we have the Cloud amplifying everything. The next long boom starts now.« less