Flat World Update

Just a quick post for your consideration.

This video mentions an interesting fact:

Last year more students in China took the SAT in English than did so in the United States.

And this video demonstrates a prototype of real-time language translation - you speak, it transcribes, then translates, then reads the translation. Within the next 10 years this will be fully functional and built into your cell phone.

Even though in some respects these almost contradict each other, I think the underlying message is the same - the playing field is getting more and more level every day.

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