Think you're equatin' human evolution with societal evolution. Just 'cause some aristocrat in London doesn't have t'grow his own food to survive anymore 'cause England's turned into a trade an' industrial power doesn't mean there isn't a whole half a continent -- or more -- still relyin' mostly on clubs an' sticks an' spears to hunt for their food. Can't say it's "human evolution" when it's only the elites advancing.
[ Laughs, a little dry. A monolingual Earth? He hopes he never lives to see it. ]
Not when I'm from. English's the lingua franca for the Black Order, but if you're educated an' in Europe, you speak French. In East Asia, it's Chinese. In Europe, used t'be Latin, and Greek before that. Just depends on which power's got the most influence.
But the masses don't speak French, in my time. From what I read, English's more common in the future, but in a hundred years, it'll be somethin' else. Rome was an exception, not the rule. Powers give way to other powers, and fashion changes.
Innovation's great. But it's not in a vacuum. A human's the one makin' use of innovation an' that's where the problem is. If you don't balance technology with ethics, I'd just as soon not have the technology at all.