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its nervous system outside itself for the first time in human
history.
To put the Florence Nightingale story in new media terms
is quite simple. She arrived on a distant scene where controls
from the London centre were of the common pre-electric
hierarchical pattern. Minute division and delegation of functions
and separation of powers, normal in military and industrial
organization then and long afterward, created an imbecile
system of waste and inefficiency which for the first time got
reported daily by telegraph. The legacy of literacy and visual
fragmentation came home to roost every day on the telegraph
wire:
In England fury succeeded fury. A great storm of
rage, humiliation, and despair had been gathering