It's a beautiful and geeky world we are creating
Languages doesn't always follow country borders, do they.
Being a Swede means living up north and speaking one of the worlds small languages. For any Swede who wants to do business outside the country it's important to master more than one language.
We all learn english, but can also choose to learn french, spanish or german in school. Most of my friends studied french or spanish. I learnt german.
These languages made sense in the old world, when most business was made with neighboring countries.
But what about today?
Now - On the internet anyone can do business all over the world via the Web. Maybe it would make more sense to let Swedish kids learn chinese, arabic or portuguese in the future!?
Then again - These days we got technology.
Maybe the kids don't have to learn any languages at all, besides their native one. In the future people will use Google translator or speak into the iPhone and let an app do the translation to the language of their choice.
Will a map like this be of any importance in the future?
It's a beautiful and geeky world we are creating.
