<i>> Do you think filing cabinet companies of yesteryear bragged about unleashing the creative capacity of the whole fucking world? Of course they didn’t! That would have gotten you laughed out of church.</i><p>This is more than a bit ahistorical. The qualities that were being "unleashed" were efficiency and memory rather than creativity, but attitudes were in some cases no less utopian and self-important.<p>There is actually a rather good book on the filing cabinet as a piece of information technology:<p><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-filing-cabinet" rel="nofollow">https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-filing-ca...</a>