The Goggles team gets to work on the coolest projects, being able to even roughly translate signs and menus in a completely foreign language just seems like the future to me.
i sometimes wonder if near instant translation is a good thing. i think we need to preserve cultures and languages which this helps. But at the same time the move to universal standards in language is similar to the web parallel and should also be sought after. It would seem such good translation services might slow that and create an endless long tail of products/service that do not quite sync up.
while i see english as the universal language, i'm not totally pro american here. I think everyone should really be on the metric system.