Will English Cease to Become the World's Lingua Franca?

  The world speaks English. Everywhere you go, English seems to be a basic communication tool, especially in a land that is exotic and unfamiliar to you. However, is there a possibility that English would cease to function as the global means of communication? Personally, I believe that English would still flourish, at the very least for the next 100 years, and my defense can be based on three evident facts:
  To begin with, a "Lingua Franca" usually does not change in a short amount of time. No one can anticipate the death of English in the international media just yet, and neither can we expect the imminent generations to give up all English courses and switch to Chinese or Spanish courses instead. Humans in the present century are already accustomed to English as a primary means of communication and there is nothing much we can do about that.
  Secondly, if America continues to be the power of the world, people will keep looking up to this nation. As much as the U.S. decides the trends of the global market, there is no manner by which we can resist English to survive.
 Last but not least, English was the dominant political language when globalization began placing its roots in the west. Many aspects of the globalized world we see today were established by the U.S., and with the whole world enjoying America's inventions (modern democracy, multimedia, technology, etc...), it wouldn't be logical for the English language to lose its say any time soon.

  Hence, due to the nature of a franca lingua's life expectancy, America's influence, and the timing of the United State's rise in world history, there is no doubt that English would not die out any time soon as the world's most dominant language. You can still hold on to your Spanish textbooks, but never forget how useful English is in our daily lives.