Certain strains of Christianity believe that the world will come to an end (or at least the apocalyptic tribulation will begin) when the world again speaks only one language.
Regardless of your interpretation of the End Times scriptures it’s pretty fascinating to know that in a round about way the world will be speaking in one language soon enough: information.
This article from CNN points out that both Google and IBM (and probably others) are working on universal translators which would translate any page in any language to any page in any language.
“Imagine what it would be like if there was a tool built into the search engine which translated my search query into every language and then searched the entire world’s web sites,” Google’s vice president Marissa Mayer told the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper recently.
“And then invoked the translation software a second and third time — to not only then present the results in your native language, but then translated those sites in full when you clicked through.”
Finally… the world can search for Brittany Spears sans language barriers!
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