The near future of our world
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The new World Trade Center is completed
01/01/2013 - 12/31/2014USA recession ends
01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015USA cars will go 16 miles per hour (Europe and Japan will go 19 miles per hour)
01/01/2016 - 12/31/2019China's economy continues to boom
01/01/2025 - 12/31/2025World War 3
01/01/2030 - 12/31/2035Self-driving vehicles widespread
01/03/2035 - 12/30/2035In-vitro meat is widespread
01/06/2036 - 12/25/2036World population reaches billions
01/04/2042 - 12/29/2042Global food and water shortages are rising. Climate is changing.
01/02/2045 - 12/29/2045Humanity is at a crossroads
01/01/2050 - 01/29/205050% of the Amazon has been destroyed
01/30/2050 - 02/09/2050Wildfires had tripled in some regions
02/11/2050 - 02/19/2050Fish body size has declined by nearly a quarter
03/01/2050 - 03/11/2050An interstellar radio message arrives at Gliese 777
03/01/2051 - 04/01/2051Rainfall intensity has increased by 20%
01/19/2054 - 12/19/2054Global population is reaching a plateau
01/01/2055 - 01/01/2056A radio telescope is built on the Moon
01/21/2058 - 11/17/2058Mars has a permanent human presence
01/01/2059 - 09/17/2059The end of the oil age
01/05/2059 - 12/09/2059End of the world
01/01/2060 - 12/31/2100Flood barriers are erected in N.Y.C.
01/01/2060 - 01/31/2060Tropical cyclones are destroying the Mediterranean
02/27/2060 - 10/13/2060Halley's comet returns
01/23/2061 - 12/30/2061Insurance crisis
01/01/2065 - 12/10/2065100th anniversary of Apollo 11
7/20/2069 - 7/21/2069Expansion of Moon bases
01/01/2070 - 12/31/2070Global temperatures have rised by 4 deg. Celsius
01/01/2070 - 12/31/2070The Green Wall of China is completed
01/24/2074 - 12/21/2074N.Y.C. and other cities are flooded
01/07/2075 - 12/21/2075The ozone layer has fully recovered
01/29/2075 - 05/17/2075The Thames Barrier is upgraded
04/13/2075 - 09/11/2075Accurate simulations of viruses
01/01/2076 - 01/01/2077Unmanned probes to Sedna
06/12/2076 - 07/04/2076Flying cars are widespread
01/01/2079 - 01/01/2080Polar bears face extinction
01/01/2080 - 11/19/2080Some humans are more non-biological than biological
01/01/2080 - 03/11/2080Construction of a transatlantic tunnel
01/31/2080 - 05/07/2080USA cedes territory to Mexico
03/11/2082 - 06/12/2082Hyper-intelligent computers
01/14/2083 - 11/22/2083Androids are entering law enforcement
01/17/2084 - 08/25/2084Manned exploration of the Jovian system
01/01/2085 - 12/31/20895 year survival rates for brain tumours are reaching 100%
01/09/2085 - 07/20/2085Christianity is fading from European culture
04/28/2090 - 08/23/2091West Antarctica is growing rapidly
01/24/2092 - 09/23/2092Many of the world's languages are no longer in use
01/01/2095 - 12/30/2095Sea levels are wreaking havoc around the world
01/01/2099 - 01/01/210083% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed
01/01/2100 - 12/31/2100Extreme droughts are affecting nearly one-third of earth
01/03/2100 - 09/11/2100Much of the world is controlled by AI
01/09/2102 - 12/05/2102Nomadic "floating cities" are roaming the oceans
01/23/2105 - 12/06/2105Man-made control of earthquakes and tsunamis
01/01/2110 - 12/31/2110Terraforming of Mars is underway
01/01/2110 - 12/31/2110Mind-uploading
01/01/2120 - 09/07/2120The International Space Elevator is operational
01/29/2125 - 11/06/2125Large-scale civilian settlement of the Moon is underway
05/12/2130 - 12/19/2130"Perfect" stimulations of one cubic metre
01/09/2140 - 12/08/2140A North American Union is taking shape
01/27/2140 - 12/01/2140Interstellar travel is becoming possible
01/01/2150 - 02/14/2150Androids physically indistinguishable from real humans
03/11/2150 - 04/09/2150Hi-tech, automated cities
04/09/2150 - 01/03/2151Total solar eclipse in London
01/01/2151 - 12/31/2151Mass extinctions are levelling off
01/01/2160 - 12/31/2160The world's first bicentenarians
01/01/2160 - 04/09/2160The first kilometre-sized space station is complete
03/11/2170 - 04/09/2171Antimatter power plants are coming online;Asteroid terrorism
01/01/2180 - 12/31/2180Matter replication devices are available for the home
01/01/2190 - 02/01/2190The West Antarctic ice sheet begins to distingerate
01/23/2190 - 09/30/2190The world in 2200
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