The cloud revolution : how the convergence of new technologies will unleash the next economic boom and a roaring 2020s
Mark P. Mills
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
| Utgitt | New York : Encounter Books , 2021
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| Omfang | xxx, 438 sider
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| Opplysninger | A convergence of technologies will drive an economic boom over the coming decade. It will come 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. We’ve seen this pattern before. The technological revolution that drove the great economic expansion of the twentieth century can be traced to a similar confluence, one that was first visible in the 1920s: a new information infrastructure (telephony), 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 technology’s three core spheres - information, materials, and machines. Over history, that’s only happened a few times.
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| ISBN | 978-1-6417-7230-3
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| Hylleplass | 303.483 4 M
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