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Lewis Mumford on New Year

1895–1990 United States

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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

Technics and Civilization (1934)

Under capitalism time-keeping is not merely a means of co-ordinating and inter-relating complicated functions: it is also like money an independent commodity with a value of its own.

Technics and Civilization (1934)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lewis Mumford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.