The Cloud Revolution - How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s

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.

The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the -new normal,- where ordering a ride or food on a smartphone or trading in bitcoins is as good as it-s going to get. Another foresees a dystopian era of widespread, digitally driven job- and business-destruction. A third believes that the only technological revolution that matters will be found with renewable energy and electric cars.

But according to Mills, a convergence of technologies will instead drive an economic boom over the coming decade, one that historians will characterize as the -Roaring 2020s.- 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. Ma