The New Yorker has an Interesting Story on one of the great puzzles of the modern workplace, why computer technology has not replaced paper. It\’s a great look at how we act and react with paper.
\”Perhaps no one embodied this notion more than the turn-of-the-century reformer Melvil Dewey. Dewey has largely been forgotten by history, perhaps because he was such a nasty fellow—an outspoken racist and anti-Semite—but in his day he dominated America\’s thinking about the workplace. He invented the Dewey decimal system, which revolutionized the organization of libraries.\”
Spotted at Mefi, and sent in by Bob Cox.
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