Efficient, Secure Green: Digital Utopianism and the Challenge of Making the Electrical Grid "Smart".
Electrical grids have long depended upon information infrastructures--systems for exchanging information about electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and use. But only in the last decade has the notion of a "smart grid" captured the imagination of policymakers, business leaders, and tec...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 448 - 479 |
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University of Texas Press
2013
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