Part 2 of a series of short book reviews themed around social formations in technology. Includes Control revolution, 1997, by J.S. Beniger; Anson Rabinbach’s. The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor, 2018; Stephen Kern’s The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918, 1983 and Kat Jungnickel’s Bikes and Bloomers, 2018.