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"We have a digital economy and we're still trying to provide power to it through a mechanical design system that was designed over 50 years ago. It is a marvelous system, but we've been effectively borrowing against the future to pay for the present, and the future has caught up with us, we need to build the system to serve the digital society of the 21st century. ...And it's then the controllability of that system. Once we have those digital controls in, we can instantaneously manage the power system so it is self healing, that is it can detect instantaneously a difficulty and correct for it locally so that cascading effects can be eliminated and fundamentally improve the reliability of the system so that computers and other sensitive equipment that has come in over the last decade are not upset by power disturbances.” - Kurt Yeager, EPRI CEO in an August 25, 2003 interview on the Lehrer News Hour about the August 14 East Coast Blackout
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