The U.S. electric grid was not designed to meet the increased demands of a restructured electricity marketplace, the energy needs of a digital society or the increased use and variability of renewable ...
Chris Hall salutes a bold, if reductive, cultural history of the grid, from silver screens to Mesopotamian bricks The Grid Book by Hannah B Higgins. MIT Press, 312pp, £16.95. mitpress.mit.edu The Grid ...
Some people dismiss grids as dehumanising "mechanisms of social control". Art historian Hannah Higgins disagrees: grids are powerful frameworks that have transformed society and culture. Here are 10 ...