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Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World
Patented: History of Inventions
Is the Filing Cabinet Just a File Cabinet?
The filing cabinet was invented in the 19th century to deal with an earlier version of information overload. 80 years later, it's information overload on an even greater scale and too much it appears for the filing cabinet to handle. When you were researching passports, Craig thought, oh, my God, the filing cabinet isn't just a filing cabinet. It is this portal to all kinds of interesting sociological, anthropological human things that we're now living with.
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