The grid is wondrous.
And yet�in part because we've paid so little attention to it, engineers tell us�it's not the grid we need for the 21st century. It's too old. It's reliable but not reliable enough, especially in the United States, especially for our mushrooming population of finicky digital devices.
Source:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/power-grid/achenbach-text/1
Developing nations are leapfrogging from no phone to cell phones - skipping the expensive and unnecessary infrastructure of land lines - and the use of mobile phone technology for everything from agriculture to banking services to health care is helping to improve the quality of life of people living in these areas
Source:
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/energy-cellular-network-africa.html
