And just about any of us would go nuts these days if our computer were rebooting even several times a day at random intervals. Over time, I think what we're going to see is a massive and very fundamental reengineering of the power grid. What we will see is a dramatic process of rebuilding and adding to it, from the bottom up. That at least gives us a clean, orderly shutdown when the lights go out. Then there are on premises fuel cells, which you will use if you're in the center of a city and you can't deploy anything else.
Fuel cells are expensive, but they also run very clean.
And on up the grid, power providers and larger users are rapidly deploying redundant, short-wire sources of power. The Web dispersed the computing power out of the mainframe. Now it drags the grid along behind it, decentralizing and dispersing the electrical supply. You've written about the contrast between the smart chip and the power chip. Tell us about that.