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During the last few centuries the connection between time and mechanical time-pieces has become so intimate that it is hard for us to depict time without thinking about a clock. The question that naturally follows is whether and how clocks then have influenced our conception of time. Maybe clocks have moulded our concept of time to a greater degree than we are aware of. If so, what are the consequences for the existential, social and scientific utilization of temporal concepts today?
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Lundmark, L. (1993). The Mechanization of Time. In: Haken, H., Karlqvist, A., Svedin, U. (eds) The Machine as Metaphor and Tool. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77711-0_3
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