Eighteen months after Crippen’s arrest, an act was passed in 
the British Parliament making it compulsory for all passenger 
ships to carry wireless.

     The Crippen case illustrates what happens to the best-
laid plans of mice and men in any organization when the 
instant speed of information movement begins. There is a 
collapse of delegated authority and a dissolution of the 
pyramid and management structures made familiar in the 
organization chart. The separation of functions, and the 
division of stages, spaces, and tasks are characteristic of 
literate and visual society and of the Western world. These 
divisions tend to dissolve through the action of the instant and 
organic interrelations of electricity.

     Former German Armaments minister Albert Speer, in a