Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World
Patented: History of Inventions
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Is the Filing Cabinet Really Important?
The idea of tabs and memory on computers is exactly what we've been talking about. People in the early 20th century start to think about information as something that's not knowledge, right? It's this thing that exists in the world. The filing cabinet comes out in an era where information becomes a thing. And so you literally, and this is where the expression emerges, you can have information at your fingertips.
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