“We lived in an electric world. We relied on it for everything. And then the power went out.” Those words were part of the intro of the 2012 TV series
Revolution, which presented a hypothetical scenario of what would the modern world be like if electricity suddenly disappeared. The show lasted for two seasons, and then it went out like a light largely forgotten.
But I remembered
Revolution on Dec. 28, when more than 10 million Mexicans, almost 8 percent of the country’s total population, experienced a world without electricity firsthand as a massive blackout occurred in different cities throughout the country. It lasted almost two hours, long enough for citizens to experience disruptions to subway services, dangerous roads because of the lack of working streetlights, interruptions to water service, and a general disconnection from all existing telecommunications’ networks. (Luckily, I wasn’t in one of the affected areas.) Since then, the country has found itself in the