# kaal:claim:3782205-002

**Claim.** The electrical revolution took more than a century to mature because uniform standards for production, transmission, storage, and utilization had to be developed first, and decentralization faces the same standards bottleneck.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- analogical argument from the history of electrification

**Source quote.**

> This is similar to the electrical revolution that took more than a century to come to fruition, because of the need to develop uniform standards for production, trans- mission, storage, and utilization.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Chapter 9. Eight institutions, page 1

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205

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**Topics.** innovation

**Keywords.** electrification-analogy, standards, technology-adoption, infrastructure

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