On August 14 2004, a severe black out punished New York and other nearby states. This power outage was a catastrophe for all the New Yorkers that seem to depend on electricity. In average all new Yorkers have at least, a television set, a computer, a stove, a refrigerator and an air conditioner at their homes. This causes them to depend on this on electricity to power their electric devices. When the blackout occurred in New York, there was mayor chaos on the streets. The subway ceased to function and left dozens of new Yorkers trapped for hours, inside dark subways. The streets were packed with traffic, people where walking on the streets for hours, to reach their homes, since they could not depend on any other source of transportation. When people reached their home, they had to light there ways with a candle, sit on their porch, since they had no air conditioning and it was to hot for them to stay inside. One positive thing that happened from all this was that people started to open up. When they sat on their porches they saw people right in front of them doing the same, and they started to meet their neighbors. The same way people did before, electricity was invented and people could afford to stay home, working playing, or even working out with an electric dependant device.
We depend too much on electricity, this all started with the industrial revolution that later created the electricity. I am not saying this is bad, but I really think that, we could depend less on electricity and try to live a more natural life. I like all the inventions that they have made, and the only thing that they really need is a 100% reliable power source and power distribution method. Electricity caused a great impact in technological devices, since all the modern machines depend on it. A machine reduces work, makes it faster, reliable and even gives quality to the product (depending on what machine).
