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The Grid and the Village - Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster (Hardcover, New)
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The Grid and the Village - Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster (Hardcover, New)
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In January 1998 a massive ice storm descended on New York, New
England, and eastern Canada. It crushed power grids from the Great
Lakes to the North Atlantic, forcing thousands of people into
public shelters and leaving millions of others in their homes
without electricity. In this riveting book Stephen Doheny-Farina
presents an insider's account of these events, describing the
destruction of the electric network in his own village and the
emergence of the face-to-face interactions that took its place. His
stories examine the impact of electronic communications on
community, illuminating the relationship between electronic and
human connections and between networks and neighborhoods, and
exploring why and how media portrayals of disasters can distort
authentic experience. Doheny-Farina begins by discussing the
disaster and tracing the origins of the storm. He then goes back
two hundred years to tell how this particular electric grid was
built, showing us the sacrifices people made to create the grids
that (usually) connect us to one another. Today's power grid, says
Doheny-Farina, has become more vulnerable than we realize, as
demand begins to outstrip capacity in urban centers around the
nation. His book reminds us what those grids mean-both positively
and negatively-to our electronically saturated lives.
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