But even as the human body ejects from the cockpit, the silicon cockpit is infiltrating the body itself. The technologies that make possible spy satellites and pilotless drones are moving into pacemakers, defibrillators, hearing aids and a boundless new array of stimulators, pumps and prostheses. Most of our time, effort and resources go into moving the solid, not the virtual, things of life. The intelligence, such as it is, resides in valves, gears and complex contours painstakingly machined into camshafts. Averaged out per capita and around the clock, that's how much it takes to power our homes and businesses.
Peak loads are higher, but most dumb electrical devices are switched off much of the time.
And it's true. They neglect to add that you'd also be driving to the moon and back every month, and using 180 gallons of gas to do so. It takes electrons to move bits. The digital economy, which most everyone loves, is completely dependent on the big central power plant, which most everyone hates. This is, or ought to be, an inconvenient fact for many politicians.