Technology is just a tool. It just so happened to be usurped by evil people with evil intentions.
Watch some of those old Popular Mechanics videos about the "house[s] of tomorrow." Then re-watch them role playing as a supervillain and spot all the opportunities for abuse, from drugging those instant meals from the packaging plant to injecting propaganda into that school tele-education to turn the kids into obedient slaves.
I've used these in the past, but I much prefer the computer database. You don't have to deal with the patrons who mix the cards up. Plus, I have the advantage of looking at the entire library system's collection rather than just one branch.
Not as great as promised? Hell if anything technology is the vehicle of our cultural collapse in many ways :(
I pinched the photo to start a conversation, but it also came from this article which is good too. - https://clickamericana.com/eras/1950s/classic-wooden-library-card-catalogs
Melvil Dewey got #MeTooed.
As someone who has worked in a library, I sure as shit don't miss card catalogues.
Consisting of heavy, durable physical media, the card catalog is cumbersome. OTOH, it is also blessedly brief and thus necessarily free of ideology.
Technology is just a tool. It just so happened to be usurped by evil people with evil intentions.
Watch some of those old Popular Mechanics videos about the "house[s] of tomorrow." Then re-watch them role playing as a supervillain and spot all the opportunities for abuse, from drugging those instant meals from the packaging plant to injecting propaganda into that school tele-education to turn the kids into obedient slaves.
I've used these in the past, but I much prefer the computer database. You don't have to deal with the patrons who mix the cards up. Plus, I have the advantage of looking at the entire library system's collection rather than just one branch.