A friend handed me his AT&T cell phone yesterday, and I thumbed through its software. Just then, I thought, if this fellow can navigate his way around this device, or a computer, as easily as he does, why can't he learn the metric system? And that applies to this man, as well as to many thousands of others who walk down the street with their eyes glued to their hand-held universes.
I am confident that Americans will learn metric easily, and I challenge FMI on its point about metric education. Perhaps at the moment, the people of the U.S. "do not understand the metric system," but only because they don't use it exclusively in their everyday lives. This complaint about knowledge is another phony excuse to serve the jingoism and the existing lack of information about metric in America. In fact, how easy would it be to go the other way, and have to change over a wholly metric America to the daily usej of inches, feet, pounds, and miles? If we worked on it for a hundred years, I don't think we could sell the American people on such a turkey. Paul -- Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 US +1(432)528-7724 mailto:trus...@grandecom.net
