One possibility: spread things out to the point where there are too many groups to influence and personal relations between engineers overpower what remains. In

One possibility: spread things out to the point where there are too many groups to influence and personal relations between engineers overpower what remains. Instead of calling in the ACM for an audio compression patent case, ask the Audio Engineering Society and they'll send you six guys that have known each other for twenty years and have shared beers with every other person involved in the case.