Unlocking free electrical energy. In an analogous manner to the way in which steam power revolutionized mechanical work. It would provide the narrative drive fo

Unlocking free electrical energy. In an analogous manner to the way in which steam power revolutionized mechanical work. It would provide the narrative drive for the next chapter in human civilization. What's interesting is that it will probably be precipitated by a low-level breakthrough in energy storage or transmission. Somewhere today there is a junior researcher, laboring away at some currently un-sexy technology, the butt of more fashionable and trendy peers, who transmutes into the next Edison in less than a decade's time ;)