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Electrifying America Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940

David E. Nye

Winner, Abel Wolman award given by the Public Works Historical Society and American Public Works Association, 1990. and Winner of the 1993 Edelstein Prize sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) How did electricity enter everyday life in America? Using Muncie, Indiana - the Ly...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Kevin Roose described it as a 30yearold history of how America got electricity and said he had first read it years ago and kept rereading it.

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The two books, one of them is called Electrifying America by David E. Nye. It is a 30yearold history book about the process by which America got electricity. And it has been very interesting to read....

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Episode: A Lot Has Happened in A.I. Let’s Catch Up.

Kevin Roose described it as a 30yearold history of how America got electricity and said he had first read it years ago and kept rereading it.

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The two books, one of them is called Electrifying America by David E. Nye. It is a 30yearold history book about the process by which America got electricity. And it has been very interesting to read. I read it first a few years ago and have been rereading it.

Just to sketch out what would it look like if AI really is the new electricity? What happened the last time society was transformed by a technology like this?

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