Demons by Candelight

Venkatesh Rao on the med­i­ta­tive virtues of pow­er out­ages for (my words). I’m not entire­ly con­vinced by the final sec­tion sug­gest­ing infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy is a new kind of illu­mi­na­tion with its own kind of sunlight/electricity (work/life) bal­ance. But I do yearn for the enforced still­ness I expe­ri­enced dur­ing black­outs while briefly liv­ing in Cos­ta Rica.