It is quite surprising that we talk very little about electricity, electricity as such. I am not a physicist, I know very little about the technicalities of electricity. Spoken communication travels through the air, from mouth to ear. Written communication up to now travelled on paper from writer to reader. One dimensional linear traces on a twodimensional sheet, which, as concrete object of course manifests threedimensionally, e.g. as a book or a letter.
Electronic communication manifests through electricity.
It is not a tangible object but something which moves. It is an active tension, moving, flowing invisibly in a network of wires. It seems to be the erotic power of matter. That alone would be stuff enough for elaboration on a metaphorical and a literal level. Is either created by poisonous acids in batteries, or, in the most frequently used form, a strong physically dangerous force in the net.