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Nevertheless, they just predict.[/quote]
Prediction and pure imagination are two vastly different things. You can not claim that scientists and science-fiction writers are the same in any respect,...

science-fiction writers have also predicted moon colonies, mars colonies, alien invasions, intergalactic travel, disintegration of the Earth due to: meteorites, sun-explosion, intergalactic bypass...

Nah... I have a hard time believing that the economic rise of China will develop into a linguistic dominance. Even if China surpasses the U.S., it still will be smaller than US/Europe combined. And...

I think the dude is talking in a geopolitical sense. Obviously all art and literature is best in their own language and therefore they will always be "important". I don't know if Arabic/Spanish will...