The Global Daily Record: How Humanity Counts Itself Into Oblivion
The Daily Record: Humanity’s Obsessive Love Affair with Counting Itself PARIS—In the predawn hush outside the Hôtel de Ville, a municipal clerk named Odette prints the daily record of Parisian births, deaths, marriages, parking tickets, and—since last month—TikTok views. She stamps each sheet with the same bronze seal Napoleon commissioned for his own birthday announcements,…
