George Woodcock's Technology: Do We Control Machines Or Do They Control Us?

George Woodcock, in an argumentative piece for War Commentary-For Anarchism, “Technology: Do We Control Machines or Do They Control Us?” (March 1944), explains the chronology of the clock and how it is bound to ruin societies and cultures. In paragraph seven, Woodcock states that time “became regarded as a commodity that could be bought and sold in the same way as any other commodity”. This led to the saying “time is money” because the more time a person spends working, the more money he or she is going to make. Therefore, product quality and craftsmanship decreased because workers became rushed to get their jobs done and automatic machines were created. Woodcock, himself an anarchist thinker, would like to educate the readers about how drastically