The productive power of this revolution is its ability to transform the industrial economy, where value grows incrementally, into a network economy where value can grow exponentially as its inclusiveness expands. Today, digital microchips are becoming cheap and tiny enough to slip into every object and activity we create. Each chip represents a sliver of intelligence able to communicate with others. As a result, the size of the network nodes is collapsing while the quantity and quality of the connections is exploding. For example, when dumb PC nodes are linked into a neural network they create the intelligence called the world-wide web.
Technology challenges the concept of the natural monopoly, and power delivery is no exception.
Second, the power delivery infrastructure is already a complex, interactive network. But if it is to keep pace with the Digital Revolution, it too must become much more interactive and complex. Today's infrastructure, composed of relatively few large power plant nodes and limited real-time connectivity, must expand to provide the same precision and efficiency as the boundaryless microchip networks it serves. The incorporation of ever-smaller stationary and mobile power supply and storage nodes. Elimination ofradiated power quality interferences among end-use devices, and with power conditioning and power supplies.