There is a word, lingua franca, which means international common language. Today, English is virtually a lingua franca, but many linguae francae were used in the past. It has been able to be replaced throughout the history. It can still be replaced in the future. However, which language would become the next one? I suppose no language would become the one in the next age. It would not be language but a program. The perfect translation program would act as the next age's lingua franca. What that happens, language barriers that have existed since the start of humanity would cease to exist. We would know we are separated more than we expected by the barriers, the world would be smaller. The effect of it is tremendous, beyond imagination. It can be called a revolution that follows Agricultural Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and Information Revolution.
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