Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
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The Tyranny of Time
When did time become money? Why do we think faster is better? And how did we decide the learning to chop our days into minutes and seconds as a good way to live? Jenny Odell decided to investigate in two books. She traces a direct line from the invention of clocks to efficiency software that monitors remote workers' keystrokes, counts warehouse workers' steps; times their bathroom breaks.
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