Is English Sufficient for the World Wide Web?

The language and nature of the Internet: the meaning of global written by Cheris Kramarae expresses how English will be a diminishing language within the World Wide Web. Throughout the development of web communication many mediums have formed. Kramarae mentions how new electronic technology continues to get the attention of users. Instead of focusing on ‘Information Technology’ people are talking about new ‘Relationship Technology’.
English is the most spoken language over electronic technology considered the World Wide Web. But, since the web converged around the globe the language community has broaden and so have the questions concerning the language of the medium. The new relationship between language and Internet is causing controversy. Is English language capable of with- standing the ever- changing Internet?

Internet and its’ many capabilities of language has surely bypassed the basic relationship between English as being the basic language of the Internet. Fewer than 10 percent of Internet users speak English as their first language yet some linguist estimate that many are either fluent or competent of the language. Although the English language is consider the most efficient, new technologies are being made to lessen some of the difficulties of intercultural communication.

Some are concerned and see the widespread use of English as a threat to cultural identity.
It was also suggested throughout many international Internet discussions of interlinguistics that planned languages should be used. Whatever the case or decision, Kramarae stated that “commercial and intellectual colonialism of the Internet will continue in the same degree as in the past decade.”

It is probable that English will likely be the lingua franca of the Internet in the future just as it is now for international business but instead of English over powering other languages, it maybe soon that English speakers will need to get translation programs in order to keep up with the changes of global communication.