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All Classification Schemes Have Bias

As David Weinberger notes. In particular, the Dewey Decimal System has inherent religious biases. I’ve done some research on Mr. Dewey as part of my book, and he was quite the bigot, it appears.

I wonder, 100 years from now, when folks are writing the history of indexes like Google and Yahoo, what biases will emerge?

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