Kalyani Tupkary

The Computer Pays Its Debt  tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.

Clock time is not what most people think it is. It was created, and it is frequently altered and adjusted to fit social and political purposes.

But while nature may mete out time’s passage in these horological devices, it takes human observation of the heavens to set them. Even the most precise atomic clock must be periodically tweaked to account for variations in the earth’s rotation. Some clocks, however, are tuned more directly to nature.

our biology is tethered to the sun, yet the clocks society uses to keep time are influenced by a tangled web of political and historical factors.