The analogy with electricity is an excellent way to frame this story! But to understand the lesson, you need to know the actual history. The first electric power station in England was not the Deptford Power Station. The Holborn Viaduct power station, aka the Edison Electric Light Station opened nine years earlier, in 1882. It ran on DC power because Thomas Edison and other boosters convinced the City of London officials that they had this electricity thing all figured out. The Edison station, which powered street lighting and a handful of private residences, closed four years later. The reason? Instead of implementing electricity carefully and learning from those experiences to guide adoption and investment, they made a splashy, headline producing investment that blew up in their faces. ๐ค
Should also have mentioned that Ed was built for LAUSD by a startup called AllHere, run by a young African American woman entrepreneur . That is as much news as the speed!
The analogy with electricity is an excellent way to frame this story! But to understand the lesson, you need to know the actual history. The first electric power station in England was not the Deptford Power Station. The Holborn Viaduct power station, aka the Edison Electric Light Station opened nine years earlier, in 1882. It ran on DC power because Thomas Edison and other boosters convinced the City of London officials that they had this electricity thing all figured out. The Edison station, which powered street lighting and a handful of private residences, closed four years later. The reason? Instead of implementing electricity carefully and learning from those experiences to guide adoption and investment, they made a splashy, headline producing investment that blew up in their faces. ๐ค
Should also have mentioned that Ed was built for LAUSD by a startup called AllHere, run by a young African American woman entrepreneur . That is as much news as the speed!