NIH Syndrome. Australia was just as 'set in its ways' back in the 70s as the US is now. Yes, there was a cost. Yes it was a time of forcing our heads to work i

NIH Syndrome. Australia was just as 'set in its ways' back in the 70s as the US is now. Yes, there was a cost. Yes it was a time of forcing our heads to work in different ways. But it was only a period of maybe 3-4 years of 'dual-thinking' before Metric became the norm. A mere 10 years later I hit the States. Temperatures in Fahrenheit were mumbo-jumbo to me: (30 degrees overnight? So hot!! Or maybe not.) A distance in miles was weird. I had to keep converting back to Metric in my head.(Rule of thumb when driving - 100Km = 1 hour; 350Km = three and a half hours; just move the decimal point. How long to drive 138 miles? Huh?)