Why ‘The Cloud’ Is More Powerful Than We Realize – The Federalist

Posted: November 11, 2021 at 6:25 pm

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Mark P. Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern Universitys McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s.

One of the things I map out in my book is that the speed with which new technologies enter commercial viability actually hasnt changed much in 200 years. Its still, its very similar. It seems like its faster, but its really not significantly different, Mills said. But what is different is that the confluence of three things, three spaces happening simultaneously doesnt happen very often. So in that sense, were going to go through not an acceleration in the rate at which an individual thing got better like an airplane or a robot, they all get better or roughly the same rate. Its been a long time getting to the cloud, not overnight.

The cloud, Mills said, has amassed a large role in the quiet technological revolution occurring in the world today and will continue to grow because there is a strong reliance on it.

Amazon has utter dominance right now. Microsoft, [which] was a mere five years ago viewed as an irrelevant, also ran. Its now catching up to Amazon. Its a big company and its alright. Googles catching up. Oracles catching up. Everybodys chasing the cloud because the demands for its services exceed anybodys ability to supply them, Mills said.

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