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The Monastery And The Clock
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"The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age." (Mumford, "The Monestary and the Clock", page 326.) represents the thesis of Mumford's "".
Couple of centuries ago it would be hard to find this thesis believable, but in today's world almost everything is driven b ....
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....ivities depend on time. How would one know when is the time to wake up and go to school or work? How long does the working day last? When is the time to start working? When is the time to stop and go home? And how about the radio programs, television programming, computers...? All of this would have to be redefined without the clock to tell the time. What would happen to our economy which is driven by the stock market?
There is many, many more examples of the chaos that would be created by remo.... |
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