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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