Moreover, regulators are often still stuck in the era of the dumb grid.

另外，监管者还经常停滞在愚笨电网的年代。

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For now, though, Crane recognizes that Nest's scheme can provide benefits in the short term, as well as a bridge to a new era where his electrical grid might be as social as Facebook is.

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An EMP attack can destroy a state's electromagnetic grid and thus take a 21st-century economy back to the pre-industrial era.

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