Sad Socket

In Tuesday's edition of WSJ there was an ad by the Galvin Electricity Initiative with the tagline "Meet Sad Socket" and the catchcopy "You'd be sad, too, if you had to power digital-age businesses on 1950s technology." While Tesla's system worked well for the turn of the century—the 20th Century, that is—the grid as it is today is overtaxed and vulnerable to disruption. With people as ignorant as they are about infrastructure issues, reform is highly unlikely.