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There's no possible way of knowing with an precision what would happen due to a change that dramatic. Needless to say we'd likely be far more advanced than we are now.
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It depends on what the initial application of this electricity brought.
Did employing electricity to man's benefit create a massive and abrupt paradigm shift? Nay. It was a gradual and slow adoption and invention.
Several things were necessary for electricity to work:
Renaissance.
Age of Enlightenment.
To just name a couple of essentials.
I think that you are really looking for the transistor as the source of "enlightenment." The transistor is the main "next step" in technological development when it comes to electricity. The light bulb was the first.
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I think that would have happened if Roman Empire had never fallen - electricity or not.
Europe took a huge step backward after Roman Empire - in almost all aspects.
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This is true.
There are some historians that believe the Renaissance would have happened sooner if the Romans would have kept a smaller, tidier empire. I don't pretend to be even remotely close to knowledgeable as those people, but I do see merit in what they say.
I always remember from my classical literature class, how in time of Roman Empire, in Rome if you had a pee on the street you'd get a fine, while in London and Paris in 18th and 19th centuries, people were pissing and shitting all over the place.
It makes me cringe.
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If they applied it the same way that we did, then Rome would be selling video games and would never have fallen because they could just bribe the barbarians with "magic boxes".
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