ABSTRACT
Marshall McLuhan, from his book, Gutenberg Galaxy, 1962
Modern power distribution systems were developed long before Marshall McLuhan’s observation of the world as a “global village.” Power distribution systems are, in fact, the infrastructure upon which the Information Age was built. But they were developed in a time when people and countries were more isolated and standardization was in its infancy. As a result, there was a vast array of power distribution schemes and implementations before some standardization and harmonization reduced that number to a handful.
