#2 would mean a lot to me personally :P It would have great implications for global warming too, but probably not as much as #3.
#1 would be good for an anthropologist or someone who wanted to study dead or extinct languages (would they count, by the way? Or if it's gone is it gone forever? :P). Really though, there are already billions of people I don't communicate with who *do* speak my language, so I doubt I'd make as much use of this as I hope I would. In terms of greater world harmony, I think it would be nice but not crucial.
#3 I have no real idea about, what with not driving. I think it would do a lot of good. If I'm not mistaken, transportation only accounts for 14-15% of greenhouse gas emissions though, so while it would slow down the process it wouldn't save the world. The real challenge would still be to force politicians to force corporations to comply with meaningful regulations. Yeah it would make people feel better about the damage they are doing personally, but that sense of "everything's okay now" could do more harm than good :P
World altering scientific breakthroughs! :O
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#2 would mean a lot to me personally :P It would have great implications for global warming too, but probably not as much as #3.
#1 would be good for an anthropologist or someone who wanted to study dead or extinct languages (would they count, by the way? Or if it's gone is it gone forever? :P). Really though, there are already billions of people I don't communicate with who *do* speak my language, so I doubt I'd make as much use of this as I hope I would. In terms of greater world harmony, I think it would be nice but not crucial.
#3 I have no real idea about, what with not driving. I think it would do a lot of good. If I'm not mistaken, transportation only accounts for 14-15% of greenhouse gas emissions though, so while it would slow down the process it wouldn't save the world. The real challenge would still be to force politicians to force corporations to comply with meaningful regulations. Yeah it would make people feel better about the damage they are doing personally, but that sense of "everything's okay now" could do more harm than good :P
Obviously #4 is better than any of them though ;D