Envisioning Solutions

they are trying to divide the time between sunrise and sunset into sevenths, so they built clocks that had variable length hours, divided daylight into 7 hours, and over the course of the seasons the clock would adjust that length. So when they first moved clocks into public, the technologists thought a general increase in piety and righteousness would occur because everyone would know when to pray.

Of course, what happened was farmers wanted to know when they should get up to feed the cows, and people wanted to know when to meet their friends for appointments, so the clocks rapidly went to a fixed length hour. Mechanical clocks and, subsequently, digital clocks have changed our world. We now think linearly instead of cyclically; it has completely changed our conception of the universe but not at all the way the guys in Europe that invented mechanical clocks thought. They thought they would get everyone to pray, so I think you always have to take technologists with a huge grain of salt when they tell you something is going to happen. When Zuckerberg invented Facebook what was he trying to do? He was trying to meet cute girls at Harvard, he was trying to pin together the cute 21