Past

Today
Communication is Using this technology today gives
Google
ultimately important
this day in age. To
travellers much more flexibility and
eases their travels when they are Translation
Services
comply with that basic visiting a country that doesn’t speak
human need, there their native language. In the past,
have been a variety of travellers were required to learn
new products/inventions words and phrases that they might Makymanu-CGG3O-U3
which serve the purpose need while travelling, usually using Culminating
of translation. Google,
large, heavy books that were
for example, has
awkward to take with them while
produced Google
Translate, which allows travelling. This meant they’d either
users to input words have to awkwardly attempting to
from their own carry them around with them for the
language into the entire trip, hope that someone in the
computer, and have it are knew English, or rely on
translated it into the memorizing these words/phrases,
language of their choice which was much more difficult.
(or vice-versa).

Building upon this

Good or Bad?
technology, Google and These translation inventions do raise
introduce their “Pixel
some ethical questions, though. For
Buds”, which are
example, while it may be more
Bluetooth earbuds that
connect to your google convenient for travellers to use
phone. These earbuds translation services such as this, does
have the ability to this technology replace learning
translate speech in real foreign languages? Do travellers have
time, so that you can an ethical obligation to at least try
understand what people and learn some words in the host
are saying in other countries language, out of respect?
languages. Overall, I believe that this invention is
of benefit to the travellers, even some
moral questions are raised.