A man tried to make the grid disappear.
After Mr. Harris left the grid, he disappeared, and there is not so much as a Wikipedia page about him.
Sometimes the circles proliferate and break up the grid, words disappearing under blobs that have machine-gunned the surface.
But the bank does not expect power companies or the grid to disappear: UBS says they have a future if they develop smart grids which manage electricity demand more efficiently and provide decentralised back-up power generation.
"We were offered free solar panels too, but as soon as they found out we were off-grid the offer disappeared".
Jules Bianchi suffered serious head injuries and his much-loved Marussia team disappeared from the grid a short time afterwards.
It's 20 years since Kevin Flynn Jeff Bridgess), who got sucked into "the Grid" in the original film, disappeared for good.
Even if your friend has disappeared off the grid, does not mean they stopped wanting to be friends.
This kind of chronology is several kinds of trippy: "A hopscotch grid appears, disappears in the sleeting rain, moves elsewhere, snaking across the cement.
"In a way, the topic of smart grids should disappear soon because whatever they do will automatically be smart," he adds.
