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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Approximate author period: c. 1986 AD · modern
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- Jeff Bezos
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- Approximate author period: c. 1986 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Jeff Bezos: documented activity in 1986. Wikidata Q312556, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312556 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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