The near future of our world

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The new World Trade Center is completed

01/01/2013 - 12/31/2014

USA recession ends

01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015

USA cars will go 16 miles per hour (Europe and Japan will go 19 miles per hour)

01/01/2016 - 12/31/2019

China's economy continues to boom

01/01/2025 - 12/31/2025

World War 3

01/01/2030 - 12/31/2035

Self-driving vehicles widespread

01/03/2035 - 12/30/2035

In-vitro meat is widespread

01/06/2036 - 12/25/2036

World population reaches billions

01/04/2042 - 12/29/2042

Global food and water shortages are rising. Climate is changing.

01/02/2045 - 12/29/2045

Humanity is at a crossroads

01/01/2050 - 01/29/2050

50% of the Amazon has been destroyed

01/30/2050 - 02/09/2050

Wildfires had tripled in some regions

02/11/2050 - 02/19/2050

Fish body size has declined by nearly a quarter

03/01/2050 - 03/11/2050

An interstellar radio message arrives at Gliese 777

03/01/2051 - 04/01/2051

Rainfall intensity has increased by 20%

01/19/2054 - 12/19/2054

Global population is reaching a plateau

01/01/2055 - 01/01/2056

A radio telescope is built on the Moon

01/21/2058 - 11/17/2058

Mars has a permanent human presence

01/01/2059 - 09/17/2059

The end of the oil age

01/05/2059 - 12/09/2059

End of the world

01/01/2060 - 12/31/2100

Flood barriers are erected in N.Y.C.

01/01/2060 - 01/31/2060

Tropical cyclones are destroying the Mediterranean

02/27/2060 - 10/13/2060

Halley's comet returns

01/23/2061 - 12/30/2061

Insurance crisis

01/01/2065 - 12/10/2065

100th anniversary of Apollo 11

7/20/2069 - 7/21/2069

Expansion of Moon bases

01/01/2070 - 12/31/2070

Global temperatures have rised by 4 deg. Celsius

01/01/2070 - 12/31/2070

The Green Wall of China is completed

01/24/2074 - 12/21/2074

N.Y.C. and other cities are flooded

01/07/2075 - 12/21/2075

The ozone layer has fully recovered

01/29/2075 - 05/17/2075

The Thames Barrier is upgraded

04/13/2075 - 09/11/2075

Accurate simulations of viruses

01/01/2076 - 01/01/2077

Unmanned probes to Sedna

06/12/2076 - 07/04/2076

Flying cars are widespread

01/01/2079 - 01/01/2080

Polar bears face extinction

01/01/2080 - 11/19/2080

Some humans are more non-biological than biological

01/01/2080 - 03/11/2080

Construction of a transatlantic tunnel

01/31/2080 - 05/07/2080

USA cedes territory to Mexico

03/11/2082 - 06/12/2082

Hyper-intelligent computers

01/14/2083 - 11/22/2083

Androids are entering law enforcement

01/17/2084 - 08/25/2084

Manned exploration of the Jovian system

01/01/2085 - 12/31/2089

5 year survival rates for brain tumours are reaching 100%

01/09/2085 - 07/20/2085

Christianity is fading from European culture

04/28/2090 - 08/23/2091

West Antarctica is growing rapidly

01/24/2092 - 09/23/2092

Many of the world's languages are no longer in use

01/01/2095 - 12/30/2095

Sea levels are wreaking havoc around the world

01/01/2099 - 01/01/2100

83% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed

01/01/2100 - 12/31/2100

Extreme droughts are affecting nearly one-third of earth

01/03/2100 - 09/11/2100

Much of the world is controlled by AI

01/09/2102 - 12/05/2102

Nomadic "floating cities" are roaming the oceans

01/23/2105 - 12/06/2105

Man-made control of earthquakes and tsunamis

01/01/2110 - 12/31/2110

Terraforming of Mars is underway

01/01/2110 - 12/31/2110

Mind-uploading

01/01/2120 - 09/07/2120

The International Space Elevator is operational

01/29/2125 - 11/06/2125

Large-scale civilian settlement of the Moon is underway

05/12/2130 - 12/19/2130

"Perfect" stimulations of one cubic metre

01/09/2140 - 12/08/2140

A North American Union is taking shape

01/27/2140 - 12/01/2140

Interstellar travel is becoming possible

01/01/2150 - 02/14/2150

Androids physically indistinguishable from real humans

03/11/2150 - 04/09/2150

Hi-tech, automated cities

04/09/2150 - 01/03/2151

Total solar eclipse in London

01/01/2151 - 12/31/2151

Mass extinctions are levelling off

01/01/2160 - 12/31/2160

The world's first bicentenarians

01/01/2160 - 04/09/2160

The first kilometre-sized space station is complete

03/11/2170 - 04/09/2171

Antimatter power plants are coming online;Asteroid terrorism

01/01/2180 - 12/31/2180

Matter replication devices are available for the home

01/01/2190 - 02/01/2190

The West Antarctic ice sheet begins to distingerate

01/23/2190 - 09/30/2190

The world in 2200

01/01/2200 - 12/31/2200

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Global rewilding effort underway

01/01/2210 - 12/31/2210