The UDC: A Revolutionary Technology

The 1908 patent for indexing and assorting means describes putting notches on the edge of punch cards so those cards can be organized without having to look at their faces. The UDC provides an entire language to describe information that's more powerful than any medium alone. Alt-Lay and his co-conspirators developed a system for actually discussing books, a language agnostic way of describing texts. That will be shown time and time again as we discuss its application next episode.