By 2050 the 2nd Most Spoken Language Will Be Hindi-Urdu, the first Chinese (visual.ly)

what i find interesting is that despite the large number of speakers of sub-continental languages (hindi, bengali, etc.), the use of these languages on the internet is miniscule. I suppose this reflects the fact that the subcontinental elite with internet access are comfortable with English.

I wonder if and how this will change as internet use becomes more widespread via cheap smartphones.

It's astonishing that anyone could write about languages and attempts 100-year predictions while ignoring NLP.