[RightWhale]

Books are going away, newspapers, too. The cam-phone is here, as is TV and radio news. Writing will soon be back where it started, in the hands of merchants and lawyers. It won't take long, a generation or two, English will be the only active language on earth, and it won't be the English we know today.

[longtermmemmory]

Read the back pages of 1984 regarding "newspeak". I don't think the written word will go away. Remember how computers were supposed to eliminate typing? Now its just called keyboarding.

Language could go to gutterspeak like bladerunner. (the original not the bad "director's cut")

Perhaps general populace will be more like Farenheit 451?

How about Demolition man, the utopian nightmare world of a 40 year old virgin stuggling with whether to have the advocado or pinapple milkshak?

waaaaay to many books and movies in my head.

[Chuckster]

Spanglish, some futurists say, will be the language of the United States and therefore a good chunk of the world.