The problem of the machine bureaucracy are legendary-dull and repetitive work, alienated employees, obsession with control (of markets as well as workers), massive size, and in adaptability. These are machine suited to specific purpose, not to adapting to new ones. For all of these reasons, the machine bureaucracy is no longer fashionable. Bureaucracy has become a dirty word. Yet this is the confirmation that gets the products out cheaply and efficiently. And here too there can be a sense of harmony, as in the Swiss railroad system whose trains depart as the second hand sweeps past the twelve.