Electricity

Hello. Today I want to talk about modern life, our dependancy on electricity and how electricity has created the world we live in today. The science of electricity has been studied for thousands of years but not as extensively as in the 18th century and beyond. The earliest person known to study the science of electricity was Thales of Miletos who studied electricity around 600BCE, but probably the most well known researcher of electricity was Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin conducted his research on electricity within the 18th century. This extensive research into electricity and our knowledge on how to harvest electricity has made it possible to live much more comfortably but my concern is that it has made life so comfortable that it has made us dependent upon electricity to get through our everyday lives. When one thinks about it, it is very astounding how prolific the use of electricity is in our lives today. Take a look around you and think what would my surroundings look like if we did not know how to harvest electricity and use it for our benefit, consider that many things are produced in factories that use electricity and many items in our homes are electrical. Finally I would like people to consider the negative side of electricity, consider the damage caused to the environment through the use of non renewable energies and also the social disconnection caused by electronic devices among many other things.

Thank you.

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