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Just as soon as the last of us old fogies who are too lazy to learn a new system dies off.
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Jul 11, 2014 - 7:38 AM
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mstrox
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Now you got me thinking. Is there braille on debit/credit card machines? That would make a lot more sense than paper money. I never got into the whole metric system thing. Sorry. I can visualize a yard, or a mile. I can't visualize a meter or kilometer.
There are braille options on many payment machines and ATMs. Many ATMs also have a headphone jack for the vision impaired.
You only can't visualize a meter or a kilometer because you haven't had to use them - but you could learn, just as you learned at some point about a foot, a yard, a mile. The base-ten metric system is more intuitive than the Imperial system, where twelve inches is a foot, three feet is a yard, five thousand two hundred eighty feet (one thousand seven hundred sixty yards) is a mile, etc etc etc.
Running a 5K sounds a lot more impressive than running three miles, so we already benefit from the metric system today 
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Jul 11, 2014 - 7:51 AM
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Solium
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Now you got me thinking. Is there braille on debit/credit card machines? That would make a lot more sense than paper money. I never got into the whole metric system thing. Sorry. I can visualize a yard, or a mile. I can't visualize a meter or kilometer.
There are braille options on many payment machines and ATMs. Many ATMs also have a headphone jack for the vision impaired.
You only can't visualize a meter or a kilometer because you haven't had to use them - but you could learn, just as you learned at some point about a foot, a yard, a mile. The base-ten metric system is more intuitive than the Imperial system, where twelve inches is a foot, three feet is a yard, five thousand two hundred eighty feet (one thousand seven hundred sixty yards) is a mile, etc etc etc.
Running a 5K sounds a lot more impressive than running three miles, so we already benefit from the metric system today
True, I have to unlearn what I have learned which is very hard to do. They tried to introduce metric in the mid 70's, but we were just so stuck on the system we grew up with since kingergarden. I believe those early years is when the brain can best process new information. As we get older it gets more difficult. But your right metric is the better system.
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I believe those early years is when the brain can best process new information. As we get older it gets more difficult.
I met a woman who in her 50's relocated to the USA from (I think) Russia. She learned English to do it.
The neighborhood she moved into was nearly all Spanish-speaking. So she learned Spanish, too.
I think it doesn't so much get more difficult brain-wise, as it gets more difficult emotionally. People past a certain age get tired of forming new relationships, including with objects and systems.
And the USA is notorious for being this way. So many other countries have managed it. Why can't we?
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Now you got me thinking. Is there braille on debit/credit card machines? That would make a lot more sense than paper money.
If I'm understanding you correctly: this doesn't help persons with poor/no vision sort their bills when they are away from said machines.
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