Scott Huler || Author of On the Grid

Infrastructure August, Indeed: the C-SPAN Moment

Thursday, August 5, 2010

There's lots to say about infrastructure -- I got a wonderful email this morning from Jason Smith, friend and member of our science communicators book group, telling me that after reading "On the Grid" he noticed how many of the stories he heard on NPR this morning were devoted to infrastructure topics -- truck traffic in Wisconsin, heat-buckled roads in Arkansas, Google and Verizon sharing traffic. That's the point! We need to be aware of this stuff, if only to see how much is happening every day that we're NOT aware of, and how -- and that -- it affects us.

Bigger news: Check out me and "On the Grid" on Book TV on C-span2 Saturday, August 7 @5 p.m. ET.

Infrastructure August continues with more good stuff not about me tomorrow.

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Wires, pipes, roads, and water support the lives we lead, but the average person doesn't know where they go or even how they work. Our systems of infrastructure are not only shrouded in mystery, many are woefully out of date. In On the Grid, Scott Huler takes the time to understand the systems that sustain our way of life, starting from his own quarter of an acre in North Carolina and traveling as far as Ancient Rome.