On this episode of Nuts World, I am pleased to welcome Mark Mills to the podcast.

His new book, The Cloud Revolution, how the convergence of new technologies will unleash

the next economic boom and a roaring 2020s is out now.

He makes the case that a roaring 2020s is arriving and it won't come from any singular invention,

from the convergence of radical advances in three primary technology domains.

Micro-processors, materials, and machines.

Accelerating and enabling this technological revolution, according to Mark, is The Cloud,

history's biggest infrastructure, which is itself made possible by the revolutions

of those three technological domains.

We've seen this pattern before.

The technology revolution that drove the great economic expansion of the 20th century

can be traced to a similar confluence, one that was first visible in the 1920s.

A new information infrastructure back then telephone and radio, new machines, cars and

power plants, and new materials, plastics and pharmaceuticals.

Single inventions don't drive great long cycle booms.

It always takes convergent revolutions in technologies three core spheres, information, materials

and machines.

Over history, that convergence has only happened a few times and every time it has had an

extraordinary impact.

Mark makes the case that a great convergence is now underway that will ignite the 2020s

and this time, unlike any previous historical epoch, we have The Cloud amplifying everything.

I'm really pleased to welcome Mark Mills.

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