[mr_toad]

Or base 16 if the machine overlords have their way.

[saalweachter]

The biggest argument against base 10 is that one day our descendants will have to explain to aliens, "because the monkeys that built us had ten fingers".

Positively mortifying.

[pmontra]

And those aliens would shrug "the slugs that built us had no fingers at all, that's why we're using binary, not because of electronics."