Evanescence
An interesting article on what makes us human - or not. The article opens:
It’s not “technology” which makes us less human, de Grazia argued persuasively, but clock dependence.
And then continues:
By the 1910s in this country, the pre-eminent time-and-attendance office equipment company was the International Time Recording Company (later known as IBM), whose catalogues warned employers against “evanescence” — time’s fleetingness.
Essentially implying that our internal clock, the clock that is driven by desire or hunger, is the human clock. Thereby making the mechanical clock the artificial driver of productivity.
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