Time: The Original "Quantified Self"

In Nicholas Carr's Pulitzer Prize-finalist book "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains," he refers to another book by David Landes called "Revolution in Time." Landes talks about how the history of timekeeping began to influence human behavior. Bells sounded to wake us up, to start work days, to open and close gates and markets, and many other things. As the costs of keeping time came down, the clock went personal. Everyone had one. This became, as Landes wrote, an "ever-visi...