To your point of the language barrier, the prediction is dated for resolution for sometime in the 21st century. We have eighty-odd years of technological developments ahead of us, and among those I'm sure there will be (even more) considerable progress in translation, our very own Babel fish. And as for that flies in the face of the hundreds of years of moral, cultural, and social development. Steven Pinker wrote a book arguing that human violence has declined in nearly every measurable way. Not the same thing as "motivatingly distressing concern for our international neighbors", and obviously not a guarantee of future trends, but a measurable reality nonetheless. I will say that Jeremy Rifkin predicted (or opined longingly) that as much would happen in his Empathic Civilization.people really don't give a shit about seeing others in poverty, we'll just laugh and say they deserve it because of their location, move on with our lives, and be done with it.