The Tyranny of Clocks: 

"The Clock represents an element of mechanical tyranny in the lives of modern men more potent than any individual exploiter or any other machine."

The Tyranny of Clocks: 

"The Clock represents an element of mechanical tyranny in the lives of modern men more potent than any individual exploiter or any other machine."

http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/woodcock/sp001734.html

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

Reminds me of Mumford's Technics and Civilization

"We effectively became “time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers” with the invention of the clock. The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age"