Status Updates From Technics and Civilization

If the Mondor-Eagen library thinks they’re getting this book within two weeks they have another thing coming because, to misquote that guy, this book is denser than a bowl of oatmeal.

That aside, the bit about the clocks was riveting. Time was not systematically measured, and then it was!

Finished the Foreword by Langdon Winner (author of The Whale and the Reactor) and the Introduction to the 1963 Edition by Lewis Mumford.

“Our most impressive successes in practical, material activities are often projections of deep spiritual needs along with the most rational and irrational of passions” (XI) - Winner