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It is pointed out in the passage that the use of the clock dial ----.
There seems no question but that the clock dial,
which has existed in its present form since the
seventeenth century and in earlier forms since
ancient times, is on its way out. More and more
common are the digital clocks that mark off the
hours, minutes, and seconds in ever-changing
numbers. This certainly appears to be an advance in
technology. You will no longer have to interpret the
meaning of “the big hand on the eleven and the little
hand on the five.” Your digital clock will tell you at
once that it is 4:55. And yet there will be a loss in the
conversion of dial to digital, and no one seems to be
worrying about it. Actually, when something turns, it
can turn in just one of two ways, clockwise or
counter-clockwise, and we all know which is which.
Clockwise is the normal turning direction of the
hands of a clock, and counter-clockwise is the
opposite of that. Since we all stare at clocks (dial
clocks, that is), we have no trouble following
directions or descriptions that include those words.
But if dial clocks disappear, so will the meaning of
those words for anyone who has never stared at
anything but digitals.