How does electricity impact society?

Electricity
impacts society in a tremendous number of ways.  Let us examine some of the ways in which it
does this:

• It allows people to live in more places.  In many
  countries, there are regions where life is not comfortable without air conditioning and/or
  heating.  Electricity allows people to have these things (in particular, air conditioning), thus
  allowing more people to live in areas (like the American Southwest) that would otherwise be
  sparsely populated.
• It allows people to have more leisure time and more
  leisure activities.  Electricity gives us relatively cheap and safe lighting for our...
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