At 2 June 2003, 12:26 PM, Carl Sorenson wrote:
Count me with the optimists. I am often pleased by the positive attitudes toward the metric system that I hear from my friends and acquaintances.
At 2 June 2003, 9:07 AM, Marcus Berger wrote:
I'm always amazed at the level of optimism that our colleague, Jim, expresses here time and again, despite evidence to the contrary... Anyhow, I'll be long dead till I see *in public use throughout the US* any appreciable amount of REAL metric data. In the meantime the clock is still ticking (we have ~6-7 years left on our bet, Jim!...
Carl and I live in the USA, whereas Marcus does not. Could the difference in what we see be due to that fact that Marcus is so surrounded by metric and he notices everything that isn't, whereas Carl and I are largely surrounded by colloquial measures, so we notice everything that is metric?
And there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that I see metric a lot more now than even 5 years ago. I'm not saying that we don't have a long ways to go (we do), but I believe it is an accelerating process.
As to our bet, Marcus, I haven't forgotten it!
Jim
