For most people, their switchboard is just a vague presence, linked somehow to bills. They may visit it if a mains circuit-breaker trips but it is mainly the preserve of spider webs and dust. Sometimes they hear whirs and clunks and see tiny lights flicker in foreign-owned black boxes. How could it be that the future fortunes of humanity reside in this forgotten technology?

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