1342: A history of the filing cabinet / Craig Robertson
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🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're welcome Neil. |
| 0:05.0 | You're welcome Neil. |
| 0:07.0 | You're welcome Neil. This. This is hell. |
| 0:25.0 | Hell. |
| 0:27.0 | Okay. |
| 0:28.0 | Live from late capitalism where the only thing that is not privately owned is our own privacy |
| 0:34.4 | This is hell |
| 0:38.3 | If you think about the filing cabinet at all and you likely do not then you might think of it as a thing of the past |
| 0:45.1 | an antiquated piece of furniture that no longer serves a function has become |
| 0:49.3 | completely obsolete but while the fact while the filing cabinet, while the filing cabinet, may be a |
| 0:56.8 | dinosaur, it is yet to go the way of the dinosaur into extinction. As our |
| 1:01.8 | guest today points out if you work for the federal government |
| 1:04.5 | and you want to get paid in retirement, somebody 240 feet underground in |
| 1:09.0 | Pennsylvania has to process your paperwork by hand. Finding it in one of 28,000 file cabinets |
| 1:16.1 | housed in a former limestone mine. |
| 1:18.5 | In 2012, the weight of file cabinets and paperwork |
| 1:21.4 | threatened the structural integrity of a |
| 1:23.2 | Veterans Benefits Administration Office building in North Carolina. |
| 1:26.9 | Of course with digitization the storage and retrieval of information is now different but you would be surprised how little has |
| 1:34.1 | actually changed from the filing cabinet century plus dominance of how we manage and |
| 1:39.2 | organize our information information the very definition of which was altered with the emergence of the filing cabinet. |
| 1:46.5 | Suddenly information was separated from knowledge, information that had been ground down to |
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