I'm not sure if they mean "contemporary" by "modern", or the more expansive definition of "modern", but in the long-term things like street addresses and offici

I'm not sure if they mean "contemporary" by "modern", or the more expansive definition of "modern", but in the long-term things like street addresses and official last names were invented and enforced in order to make reality itself legible for "database" management, as part of the dawn of the modern notion of government, indeed.