Since our civilization seems to have moved to binary for actual computations I wonder if we will someday go back to thinking in terms of halves, quarters, eighths, etc. of some standard unit. Then people would mock the metric system for being implicitly based on the biological accident of ten fingers...
Binary notion is too cumbersome - read long to use properly. As a matter of fact e-based system would be the most efficient [1]. There was an attempt to develop 3-based (ternary) computer by the Soviets[2], ternary in theory is slightly more efficient than binary (3 being close to e) but its engineering obstacles makes it quite impractical.
