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2030-2039 timeline contents
2030-2039
• The High-Definition Space Telescope (HDST) is operational |
2030
• Global population is reaching crisis point |
• Desalination has exploded in use |
• "Smart grid" technology is widespread in developed nations |
• The USA is declining as a world power |
• An interstellar message arrives at Luyten's Star |
• Depression is the number one global disease burden |
• Child mortality is approaching 2% globally |
• The Muslim population has increased significantly |
• Full weather modelling is perfected |
• Orbital space junk is becoming a major problem for space flight |
• Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) reaches the Jovian system |
• The UK space industry has quadrupled in size |
• The Lockheed Martin SR-72 enters service |
• A new generation of military helicopters |
• Hyper-fast crime scene analysis |
• Half of America's shopping malls have closed |
• Emerging job titles of today |
• Cargo Sous Terrain becomes operational in Switzerland |
2031
• India has begun phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) |
• Much of Bangkok is being abandoned due to flooding |
• Global reserves of lead are running out |
• Perennial wheat and corn are becoming profitable |
• Web 4.0 is transforming the Internet landscape |
• Stem cell pharmacies are commonplace |
• Married couples are a minority in the UK |
• Chocolate has become a rare luxury |
2032
• The majority of UK homes are rented |
• Britain's ash trees have been wiped out by a fungal disease |
• Leatherback sea turtles are on the verge of extinction |
• China's space station is deorbited |
• 4th generation nuclear power |
• One-third of Saudi Arabia's electricity comes from solar |
• Terabit internet speeds are commonplace |
• Britain upgrades its nuclear-armed submarine fleet |
2033
• Crewed mission to Phobos |
• Mining operations in the main asteroid belt |
• Peak phosphorus is reached |
• Hypersonic airliners are entering service |
• The final phase of Britain's HS2 rail link is completed |
• Holographic wall screens |
• Lung disease in China has killed over 80 million by now |
• Five-year survival rates for kidney cancer are approaching 100% |
2034-2044
• Ectogenesis is transforming reproductive rights |
2034
• Service robots number a billion worldwide |
• The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is launched |
• Australia has fully decarbonised its electricity supply |
• Switzerland phases out nuclear energy |
• Caribbean coral reefs are in danger of being wiped out |
• Coastal erosion has destroyed hundreds of UK homes |
• A major supermoon occurs |
2035-2075
• The Very Large Hadron Collider is operational |
2035-2045
• The first definitive evidence of life beyond Earth |
2035-2040
• The final collapse of the European Union |
• Russia is a global food superpower |
• Swarm robotics are reaching the nanometre scale |
• Establishment of the first manned lunar bases |
• The RAF Typhoon is phased out and replaced by the Tempest |
2035
• Millennials are enjoying an inheritance boom |
• Lion populations in Africa have declined by half |
• World tin reserves are running out |
• Distributed propulsion systems are revolutionising air travel |
• Self-driving vehicles dominate the roads |
• Holographic recreations of dead people |
• Robots are dominating the battlefield |
• London's population exceeds 10 million |
• Norway's underwater suspended tunnels are completed |
• The global airline fleet has doubled |
2036-2060
• Breakthrough Starshot obtains images of Alpha Centauri |
2036-2040
• Transhuman sports competitors |
2036
• Hepatitis C has become a rare disease in the U.S. |
• In-vitro meat is a mature industry |
• Alzheimer's disease is fully curable |
• Detailed probing and mapping of the Kuiper Belt is underway |
• Lemurs are on the brink of extinction |
2037
• Total solar eclipse in Australia and New Zealand |
• The U.S. Air Force introduces a new stealth bomber |
• America's sixth-generation fighter jet enters service |
2038
• Older computers are at risk of experiencing major software malfunctions |
• The New Horizons probe is 100 AU from the Sun |
• Capital punishment has greatly declined in use |
• Teleportation of complex organic molecules |
• The FIFA World Cup trophy is replaced |
• The space industry exceeds $1tn worldwide |
2039
• Full immersion virtual reality |
• The world's first trillionaire |
• Manufacturing jobs have largely disappeared in the West |
• Australia's national symbol, the Koala, faces extinction |
• Five-year survival rates for leukaemia are approaching 100% |
• Extreme heatwaves are commonplace in the U.S. |
2040-2049 »
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