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    A New Way to Think About Our Filing Systems

    How we organize things affects more than just where they are: Your weekly guide to the best in books
    by Kate Cray Aug 19, 2022 2 minutes
    Source: The Atlantic

    In The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of, Craig Robertson chronicles the history and influence of the titular 19th-century invention . The machine—for it was advertised as a piece of high-tech equipment rather than as a mundane furniture item—promised corporations a new level of capitalist efficiency. All company information could be quickly classified and stored according to a rigid system, and then just as easily retrieved.

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