How the Index Card Cataloged the World

This is completely my jam:

The index card was a product of the Enlightenment, conceived by one of its towering figures: Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, physician, and the father of modern taxonomy. But like all information systems, the index card had unexpected political implications, too: It helped set the stage for categorizing people, and for the prejudice and violence that comes along with such classification.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/how-the-index-card-catalogued-the-world/547271/?utm_source=twb