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Perhaps you are thinking of "Metrication". By the way, the 'modern' metric system was devised roughly contemporaneously with the French Revolution, around 1790. The rest of the world has been thinking about it for 220 years. Most of the others have made their decision by now, but the US doesn't like to rush into anything.

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