telephone network inside a single business. Like the typewriter, 
the telephone fuses functions, enabling the call-girl, for 
example, to be her own procurer and madam.

     Northcote Parkinson had discovered that any business or 
bureaucratic structure functions by itself, independently of “the 
work to be done.” The number of personnel and “the quality of 
the work are not related to each other at all.” In any given 
structure, the rate of staff accumulation is not related to the 
work done but to the intercommunication among the staff, 
itself. (In other words, the medium is the message.) 
Mathematically stated, Parkinson’s Law says that the rate of 
accumulation of office staff per annum will be between 5.17 
per cent and 6.56 per cent, “irrespective of any variation in the 
amount of work (if any) to be done.”