I also heard about partnerships among start-ups, governments, and large companies to achieve big changes like electrifying air travel or exponentially improving the potential for battery storage.
When the first exhibition of German Bauhaus paintings opened in Calcutta in 1922, the work of figures like Kandinsky and Paul Klee electrified the city's vanguard art world.
When Holcomb starts to sing in his loud, stick-straight, foghorn voice, my whole body shifts into a hyper-aware, overperceptive state: in the language of our age, this is called "being present," but it feels more like "being electrified".
A musical analogy is apt; it's as if Bronstein took the fury of punk and put it through the intellectual demands of classical music; the result is not like a rock opera, but like an opera, electrified, as if the violin section of "Wozzeck" were replaced with Glenn Branca's guitar.
These are essentially electrified Razor-like scooters that can go up to 15 mph and cover 18 miles on a single charge.
Tomorrow's flagship models could well be electrified pod-like autonomous vehicles that coddle their occupants in comfort as they zip their way silently from one destination to another.
"I would just be screaming for help, and my husband couldn't touch me because it was like I was electrified," she said.
We are not, however, so unanimous as to whether Beethoven got his metronome suggestions right or wrong and that is why conductors like Roger Norrington and John Eliot Gardiner have electrified us with readings that sometimes seem almost twice as fast as those of the past.
Even in settings where cordon fences are electrified like in South Africa, stealing of batteries and solar panels may render the fence ineffective (Jori et al. 2009).
