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[Towaway69]

We won’t replace electricity but we’ll build on top of it. Electricity is fundamentally the same since ever: copper wires transport it and it flows between two poles.

That’s a bit what C is - the basis of other languages and for that it works fine. We abstract up the chain of complexity.

There will always be a fundamental basis for all technology and it will never be perfect. Tesla would have preferred to use DC currents, instead we have AC which is more dangerous.

[philistine → Towaway69]

DC was preferred by Edison, not Tesla, which is not more dangerous at all. That was propaganda by Edison to disparage *EDIT:AC current. DC is just as dangerous as AC.

[Towaway69 → philistine]

Thanks for the correction.

> That was propaganda by Edison to disparage DC

But if he prefered it, why would he create progaganda against it?

> DC is just as dangerous as AC.

I assumed the alternating made it more dangerous but I stand corrected.

[philistine → Towaway69]

I messed it up too. Edison wanted to disparage AC.

[bmicraft → Towaway69]

> instead we have AC which is more dangerous

That's false. If you assume the same (effective) voltage, ac is considerably less dangerous.