[Stormflame]

This idea almost inspires me to go write a book. Seriously. If electricity had never been harnessed, imagine the world and how it would look today. Sure, the world would have progressed. However, imagine streets lit by lantern light. Imagine there being no skyscrapers. Nothing that has been built using the science of electrity, nor anything that uses electricity now, would exist.

An industry in oil and fossils and trees would have been inspired by the ever increasing numbers of the worlds population. Hydroplants would not exist. Man's exploration of our little place called earth would never have been as easy. Far off places would only be reachable by slow steampowered locomotion. The plot is endless. The world could have fell into a regression from such a thing.

World wars would not have taken place in such a manner as they had. Science would have evolved down new roads, not realized by us now. A greater power could have been founded, and we could have very easily been pushed into technology that far surpasses our tech of today. We could have already been on Mars and apassed. Space stations could be just another random sight in a world of hovering cars and bigscreens that make plasma screens of today appear meager.

On the other hand, one must consider, that if this 'power' had not been found and tamed, another power would have surely been found and utilized. That very thing could have saved us from high gas prices now and could have put any use of oils and trees and electricity itself to the backburner. It could be a power that we are setting on right now, and not even realize it is there, for reason that we depend happily on our primary resources available to us now.

A tech book. Yes, great idea....