
Episode 107 - The Mundaneum, Part I
Advent of Computing
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The Dewey Decimal System and the RBU
Paul Outlay and Henry La Fontaine were inspired by Herman Melville's Dewey Decimal system. The RBU was designed for organizing the sum total of human knowledge. It doesn't just organize a single library, but all libraries. A card in the system might lead you to a shelf nearby, or it might leadYou to a collection on another continent ran by people that speak your language.
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