As happened with Greek, Latin and even French in the past, English is today the 'lingua franca', the language in which the world communicates to make business and, thanks to the Internet, even to make friends.
But I would disagree with the author when they say that there is no way back in the dominance of the English language. Romans, centuries ago, must have thought similarly about the Latin language (and about their culture and dominance of the world). There is no way, in my opinion, one can be certain that, sometime in the future, there will not be another dominant culture that would impose its language.
via www.worldaffairsjournal.org
Obviously, the discomfort with English “taking over” is due to associations with imperialism, first on the part of the English and then, of course, the American behemoth. We cannot erase from our minds the unsavory aspects of history. Nor should we erase from our minds the fact that countless languages—such as most of the indigenous languages of North America and Australia—have become extinct not because of something as abstract and gradual as globalization, but because of violence, annexation, and cultural extermination.
But we cannot change that history, nor is it currently conceivable how we could arrange for some other language to replace the growing universality of English. Like the QWERTY keyboard, this particular horse is out of the barn.
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