Corporate structure is a managerial technology. It is a technology that arises especially in codependence with transportation, communication, and information-processing technologies. As the advance, so corporate structure advances. In this sense, the industrial and information revolutions do indeed mark a significant break with the rest of human history in the sense that the flow of energy through our societies is no longer geared toward particularly divine, planetary, natural/ecological, or even individual human ends. Some of this flow is indeed diverted into the production of wast and into transmission losses.