Facebook’s ability to replicate language barriers is admirable. We meet people we can understand. The future will be for people to connect with eachother without having met, and without speaking the same language, and through their connection they will create valuable exchange. What this diagram shows is that the nation-state linguistic barriers remain a powerful means of delimiting the human experience. This needs to change, and a company that does not exist today will make it possible.
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The Story Of ‘Robert The Bruce’
Robert the Bruce is depicted as an elegant, and honest man in the film Braveheart. In reality, rulers of nations in the 13th and 14th century were absolute through violent cruelty, and through false religious constructs designed to legitimize their authority.
Translation On Facebook
2 years ago I predicted that Facebook would have a translation button on the walls of people who wrote in other languages. Now that it’s happened, we have to ask whether it is accurate, whether Bing automates these translations, and if so whether Bing misses the inside-jokes wordplay of specific languages. In other words is something lost in translation? OR are there people actually translating these sentences, like with CardMunch?
Ending compartmentalized interaction will be a multi-billion dollar industry.