there will soon be only documentation to establish regular and benevolent contact between man

Otlet’s ambition of recording and indexing all human actions, all natural phenomenons, all that is possible for us to perceive according to the five senses and beyond (including the imperceptible and the irrational)

the absence of a social contract

ritualistic

git commit -m 'What I did today'

The hyperdocumented individual, who initially sought the ability to cope with one-off situations, now aims to become permanently “augmented”

While undocumented people do not have official papers, they often have access to software via smartphones or libraries; some have profiles on social networks as well. Hence the opposition between hyperdocumented and undocumented proves complex and the undocumented (in the sense of illegal immigrants) can also be hyperdocumented (as digital citizens).