Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock of evolution had been reset; the countdown to Man had begun. The date was, very approximately, 65 million...
...clock cannot be turned back, despite the current political exploitation of old-fashioned family values. "The isolated nuclear family of the 1950s was a small blip on the radar," says Wolfe. "We've been looking at it as normal, but in fact it was a fascinating anomaly." While a strict reinforcement of traditional family roles is already under way in parts of the Muslim world and a backlash against feminism has occurred in the West, such counterrevolutions are likely to fail. "The fact of change is the one constant throughout the history of the family," says Maris Vinovskis, a professor...
...technology will make it easier for work to be done remotely from home, though it remains to be seen whether this would be truly a boon for family life. While work will be less tied to the office, it will also be more international and therefore more round-the-clock. Making a clear separation between work life and home life may actually become more difficult...
...fact, as historian Daniel J. Boorstin recounted in The Discoverers, 500 years earlier a civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...
...Sung's clock points to a great historical puzzle. Why did China, where so many things were invented, exploit its creativity so poorly? The Chinese discovered paper and movable type, yet the country was virtually illiterate until the 20th century. Gunpowder was also invented in China, yet its cannons were inferior to those made by Europeans. China's bustling cities, despite their vitality, never stimulated the intellectual ferment that in Europe led to innovation...