AMERICAN POWER

“A technology is not merely a system of machines with certain functions; it is part of a social world. Electrification is not an implacable force moving through history, but a social process that varies from one time period to another and from one culture to another…Each technology is an extension of human lives: someone makes it, someone owns it, some oppose it, many use it, and all interpret it.”

— David Nye, Electrifying America