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The clock beat the wheel
Humanity's most important invention was the clock, not the wheel or the printing press.
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- 1Shared time is what makes strangers able to coordinate: a factory shift, a train timetable and a stock market are all impossible without everyone agreeing what hour it is.
- 2The mechanical clock gave Europe the idea that nature runs on gears, and that idea became physics; Newton's universe is a clock before it is anything else.
- 3Every other invention is used when someone decides to; the clock decides for them, which makes it the only invention that runs the others.
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