It turns out that Douglas Adams wasn’t only one of the greatest humorists of the 20th century, but he was also a sort of sage. Bacteria has been synthesized that essentially acts as a ‘babelfish’, which, if you haven’t read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, allows you to understand every language as if you had spoken it since birth.
Does this increase or decrease your desire to travel? If it increases it, where would you go first?
Do you think this will help or hurt international diplomacy?
What effect will the discovery have on the world's various cultural identities?
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