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>                                           Or check out a book called
> "Turing's Man," by Stephen Bolton, which discusses changing metaphors
> for life, the universe, and everything (the ancient Greeks had the
> spindle, renaissance Europeans had the clock mechanism, we today have
> the computer as a central metaphor, he claims). We change our world
> views as our knowledge of ourselves and the universe changes. 

McLuhan's _Understanding Media_ also discusses the importance of the
clock metaphor in the late middle ages and the Renaissance.  (Both
books are well worth reading.)
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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