Re: Information on future English language development?

Sally:
> My broader question: what is the history or popularity, if there is
> one, of "future English" conlangs?  Are there any out there besides
> the one Estel says she's contemplating?
> Anybody else doing this?  I'm writing on behalf of my friend, but
> I'll admit a bias towards the contemplation, as well, of a future
> human.  Given how much our language reflects our politics, technology,
> and so forth, a future English has to take into account some sort of
> future history, and future technology, right? Especially given our
> increasing "digitalization."  How can it not?
> Or is it mainly an exercise in trying to predict how we will be
> pronouncing would, good, and should in California twenty-five years
> from now?
I have worked on a future English, specifically how British English
develops over the next 500 years and more, with the requirement that
the development be plausible and that its initial conditions fully
reflect the conditions actually obtaining today. But after
working on the phonological development with some thoroughness,
I largely abandoned the project, because the grammar and lexicon
could be developed only with a comprehensive overview of the
language that required too much time and effort for me to sustain.
I ended up being able to say how British English of 2500 would
pronounce English of 2000, but not what BrE of 2500 was like.

--And.