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Re:The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born by throwaway201606 on Friday May 15, 2026 @11:00AM (#48149560)
The language of global commerce and technology has not and has never been English

It is money.

Specifically, right now, petro-dollars. For a while before that, it was pounds

The writer is asking how much longer that will continue to be true that it is petro-dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_currency

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Re:The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born by gegtik on Friday May 15, 2026 @11:16AM (#48149782)
right, it was english, but then it became english
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