Fiat Lux - et facta est lux

摘要

The virtuous are early to bed and early to rise not wishing to waste the daylight. The less virtuous party on under the glow of artificial light. A poor light, though, compared to the sun but better than nothing. First there was firelight then candles and lamps and then in historically recent times the gas lamp until this in its turn gave way to devices powered by electricity. Maybe that's the end of an energy road, changing from one type to another - maybe not, crystal ball gazing is notoriously inaccurate. It's probably safe to say that electricity is here to stay, or at least for a very long time. Even the most way out futurologists surmise only that the future will be lit by electric light. Where the electricity comes from will change and how it is used will change but the one will still beget the other.