Analyze the factors which have led to the globalization of English and evaluate the future of English as a world language?

In 1950, any motion of English as a true world language was just a theoretical possibility, surrounded by the political uncertainty of the Cold War. Fifty years later, English made John Lennon "more popular than Jesus". Nowadays, English language has accomplished to do what British Empire never succeeded.
The English Empire exists, and it is growing stronger by the minute.
Even this document, is an undisputable evidence. It is now the most successful language the globe has ever known with perhaps more than 1,500 million speakers. In this century, English have become a political and c…