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stephen_g
on Aug 10, 2014
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Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system...
Conversions being easier is nice, but the main advantage of the metric system is that it is a set of properly standardised units that the rest of the world uses...
Having a computer in your pocket is never going to change that.
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Having a computer in your pocket is never going to change that.