Daily Archives: April 17, 2013

On the Superfluity of Electric Power, the Internet, and Other Newfangled Inventions

James Thurber, in My Life and Hard Times, described his grandmother’s suspicions of electricity, at the time a new and mysterious technology.  She “lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all … Continue reading

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