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  1. The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig ...
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    It is easy to dismiss the object: a rectilinear stack of four drawers, usually made of metal. With suitable understatement, one design historian has noted that "manufacturers did not address the subject of style with regard to filing units." 3 The lack of style figures into the filing cabinet's seeming banality. It is not considered inventive or original; it is simply there, especially ...
    Author:Craig RobertsonPublished:2021
  4. news.northeastern.edu

    The filing cabinet is a product of that time of modernization and efficiency in the offices of corporations, which themselves were an invention of this period. The filing cabinet arrives because there is a perceived need to have more information and easier access to that information if you want to be productive and efficient in business.
  5. upress.umn.edu

    The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig ...
  6. goodreads.com

    The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way ...
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  7. blogs.lse.ac.uk

    The filing cabinet and the flat-topped pedestal desk became the tools of a new information regime that prioritised speed of circulation over long-term storage. To explain the filing cabinet's contribution to modern efficiency, Robertson divides its material qualities into three: verticality; integrity; and 'cabinet logic'.
  8. theatlantic.com

    The filing cabinet changed all that, encouraging what Robertson calls "granular certainty," or "the drive to break more and more of life and its everyday routines into discrete, observable ...
  9. muse.jhu.edu

    Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically ...
  10. books.google.com

    The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information.Robertson's unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an "automatic memory ...
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