Anybody in science and engineering would like to, but politicians don't want to upset the less intelligent people. Change scares them.
Same problem in the UK. We got started with metrication in the 1970s, then got all hung up half way thorough, leaving us with a right dog's dinner of a mess. Petrol in litres, milk and beer in pints, but pre-packed milk in litres, spirits/wine in millilitres, roads in miles and yards, but heights in feet and metres (stops the continentals crashing into bridges), meat and veg in kilos (but also priced up in pounds), standard pack sizes in kilos, or (soft-metricated) pounds at 908g ... I could go on.
And I may have been wrong about Ray Bradbury. seems to be some disagreement about the auto-ignition temperature of paper according to that popular online encyclopedia (see what I mean).
Anyway OT, perhaps we should stop there?
