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preference for teletype over telephone, with a natural Western
bias.
The separation of powers had been a technique for
restraining action in a centralist structure radiating out to
remote margins. In an electric structure there are, so far as the
time and space of this planet are concerned, no margins. There
can, therefore, be dialogue only among centres and among
equals. The chain-of-command pyramids cannot obtain
support from electric technology. But in place of delegated
power, there tends to appear again with electric media, the
role . A person can now be reinvested with all kinds of nonvisual
character. King and emperor were legally endowed to act as the
collective ego of all the private egos of their subjects. So far,
Western man has encountered the restoration of the role only
tentatively. He still manages to keep individuals in delegated