Google vs The Language Barrier

I wonder if this technology will eve reach the level like it was shown in the Iron Man movie. They show real time audio translation which is just really amazing!

I'm thinking only Google could really attempt to do this because of their size; they have quite a few hundred thousand machines at their disposal to do the complex translations. Can't wait til this one day hits "Google Labs" public beta.

Can you imagine how amazing it would be to have no language barrier! This would catapult the human race to a new level of communication with each other. Like the universal language in mathematics affords mathematicians from all over the world a chance to collaborate, breaking the language barrier would break down the cultural walls held steady by language. Very exciting

Who said, 'language is a disease from outerspace"? Was that Laurie Anderson or did she just use the quote in her song? The bible explains the barrier as an intervention from God - which indicates to me, not that there was some divine decision to separate us through language, but rather that humans living more than 2,000 years ago already realized how difficult it made things to trade and learn from people living no more than a few humdred miles from home.

This technology sounds absolutely amazing! I would use the translator everyday for work to help communicate with my spanish speaking employees. Right now I have to worry if they actually understood me. And most the time when I use the free translators online it's wrong and I end up saying something that doesn't make any sense to them. I'm sure the linguists who are skeptical about this software only are because it will most likely put them out of work.