From card weaving To computers, the value of institutional knowledge in leadership

Dorothea Mordan’s Good Day Neighbor Column 3/2023.

Weaving has been used by humans for thousands of years. Through the Middle Ages weaving was all done by hand. Then came the Industrial Age with inventions such as the Jacquard loom, patented in 1804. Joseph Marie Jacquard, building on earlier inventions, created a system of punch cards to control mechanical weaving. A hole in the punch card would hold a warp thread in place. No hole and the thread would lift, allowing the weft thread to be…