The clock has been the center of Western technology since its inventio…

The clock has been the center of Western technology since its invention in the Middle Ages. Computer technology too finds it indispensable, although it has changed the clock from a mechanical device to a wholly electronic one.

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Jay David Bolter, Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age (1984)

year: 1984

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