Energy is going digital

摘要

Hold on to your electric vehicle seat: Energy is going digital. When a technology goes digital, it changes everything. For starters, the rate of technology improvement takes a new slope - transitioning from glacially slow to exponentially fast. Think about online search and how it changed the way we find information, how social media changed the way we receive news, and how electronic books and e-readers changed the way we buy books. When a technology goes digital, words like "library," "newspaper," and "bookstore" start to sound like relics of the past.