----- Original Message ----- From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:08 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Consistency
Not until my generation is dead and buried, at least. Back when I was in grade school in the 70s, they tried to teach us the metric system (which is clearly inferior and incomprehensible, by the way!) but it didn't take. Being an educated person, I can do the conversions, but I have no intuitive grasp of Celcius temperatures, nor do most Americans.
Same with mine, in the early 90s. It's more common, however, to see metric/SI required even in junior high science courses. Was at my school, anyhow. But no, it doesn't go anywhere for day-to-day tasks. I dunno what it'll take, besides force, to get Americans to abandon imperial units.
Seriously, though, at the present time there is no significant movement afooot to change our measurement system, nor does anyone seem to particularly care.
Very true.