People forget how recent electricity was in the early 20th century.
The Philippines used to suffer from intermittent power supply which greatly retarded its development. A stable electricity grid is a major factor declined behind the pinoy economic boom in the last 20 years.
Where I live there’s maybe a power outage once every second year maybe for 30 minutes because of the grid overload in the winter. It’s like stepping back into the dark ages for a couple of hours
This is an amazing historical account by Gavin Weightman. We take so many things for granted and forget how certain individuals and their struggles gave us things like electricity, automobile etc.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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