Stability As a Utility

STABILITY ENGINEERING – Volume 9 www.manhattanproject20.com 1 117-70-D Stability as a Utility How a conversation about electricity validated an idea that once seemed strange Recently, I listened to Sam Altman speaking to a class at Stanford. During the discussion, he repeatedly returned to a theme that has appeared throughout the history of technology: “X as a utility.” He spoke about electricity as an example. A century ago, electricity was expensive, unfamiliar, fragmented, and difficult to distribute.