Time Was a Vague Idea

In the early years of the nineteenth century, a clock chimed according to some clicking gear or swinging pendulum. But these clocks were like beginning piano students at best and could only keep time so well. Time then was a vague notion. You would tell a friend that you would meet up after dinner, and one of you would probably wind up waiting around. They took this thing, the taction, this agreement between people, and turned it over to a machine. With clock time came shifts, punching in and punching out. And they created more hours, which they filled with your work. Created more ways to watch out for idle hands, for untapped profit potential,. new ways to make