[I]nformation as a category is a historically specific concept, and the emergence of the tabbed manila folder provides an object through which to understand the development (not the origin) of a distinctly modern conception of information as a thing that exists in the world, as something that is impersonal, discrete, and easily extracted."
Craig Robertson, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information (St. Paul, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2021), p. 127-28
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