After the 1918 Spanish Flu came the bustling era of the radio and the automobile known as the “Roaring Twenties.” Hoping history will repeat this post-pandemic boom, some have predicted a New Roaring Twenties. But what coming innovations or general purpose technology could spark such a period of progress and prosperity? My guest today thinks that technology has already been invented — and you probably use it every day. On a recent episode of “Political Economy,” Mark Mills discussed the cloud revolution and its economic implications.

Mark is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. His latest book is The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s.