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The clock amplifies work. Until the clock was invented, what we call work was almost impossible to organize. It obsolesces leisure.
“Man and Media,” lecture delivered at York University, Toronto, 1979, in Understanding Me (2003), p 288
Quote #3360
Year: 1979
Chapter: LOM 2 - Obsolesce
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