Idea in 1 sentence: Clocks were made to synchronize activities. Some believe that clocks first started to sync the wake-up times of monks in a monastery, but generally they were popularized in 1700s England to keep a time-table for workers to clock-in/clock-out to keep machinery running. (note: book lacked a primary source on this) Read more: Mumford's Technics & Civilization ______ Related Notes: [[Task Orientation = Time before clocks]] Tags: #history Source: [[Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman]] page 23 Date: 2023-05-01