Timeline (New Generation)

== 2010s ==
=== 2018 ===
* A major earthquake hits California. 
* East Africa's largest ever infrastructure project.
* The Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe arrives at 1999 JU3.
* Completion of the 100,000 Genomes Project.
* The Transbay Transit Center is opened in San Francisco.
* The NHS begins high-energy proton therapy in England.
* Enterprise-grade SSDs reach 128TB of capacity.
* InSight touches down on Mars.
* The CHEOPS telescope is deployed to study exoplanets.
* Crossrail opens in London.
* Polio has been eradicated.
=== 2019 ===
* Personal genome sequencing enters the mainstream.
* 3D printing becomes a mainstream consumer technology.
* The New Horizons probe arrives at Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69.
* James Webb Space Telescope is launched.
* The first mission to a gas giant using solar sail propulsion.
* The first prototype Stratobus is launched.
* Launch of BIOMASS mission.
* Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system is fully operational.
* Computers break the exaflop barrier.
* Bionic eyes with high resolution are commercially available.
* A vaccine to treat melanoma.
* Connected vehicle technology is being deployed in a number of countries.
* Automated freight transport.
* US copyright begins to expire, starting with all works from 1923.
* LEDs dominate de lighting industry.
* Jordan opens its first nuclear power plant.
* The City Circle Line opens in Copenhagen.
* The East Side Acess subway extension opens in New York.
* British troops leave Germany.
* The final collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf.
* Independence of Bougainville Island and New Caledonia.
== 2020s ==
=== 2020 ===
* So-called "blue ocean events" becomes commonplace.
* The Euclid Space Telescope is launched.
* Uganda is an oil-producing nation.
* America's power shift is destabilising the Asia-Pacific region.
* Generation X is reshaping global politics.
* Internet use reaches 5 billion worldwide.
* The 5G standard is released.
* Texting by thinking.
* Complex organ replacements grown from stem cells.
* The first stem cell therapy for congestive heart failure.
* A cure for malaria.
* Progress with longevity extension.
* Genetically engineered "super" bananas.
* Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games.
* Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) has been significantly exoanded.
* Completion of the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link.
* The UK has expanded its offshore grid connections.
* Smart meters in every UK home.
* Mercury pollution has been greatly reduced.
* Glacier National Park and other regions are becoming ice-free.
* Britain's new aircraft carriers reach full operational capability.
* 30,000 drones are patrolling the skies of America.
* Mars 2020 rover mission.
* The first test flights of NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology.
* England's Coastal Path is open to walkers.
* Expo 2020 is held in Dubai.
* The PlayStation 5 is launched.
=== 2021 ===
* The Euclid Space Telescope reveals new insights into dark matter and dark energy.
* The ExoMars rover touches down on Mars.
* June 17th:
** Greenland moves towards full independence.
* Water crisis in southwest USA.
* The world's largest insect swarm re-emerges.
* Five-year survival rates for breast cancer are approaching 100%.
* Male birth control pills ar entering the market.
* The world's first artificial kidney.
* Launch of the Terrafugia TF-X flying car.
* The first Arabian mission to Mars.
* The maiden flight of Ariane 6.
* India's first manned space flight.
* A rapidly changing workforce.
* Wireless electricity is reaching critical mass.
* Traditional microchips are reaching the limits of miniaturisation.
* Completion of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge.
=== 2022 ===
* The next generation of London Tube trains.
* India becomes the most populous country on Earth.
* The ITER experimental fusion reactor is switched on.
* Germany phases out nuclear energy.
* Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics.
* Qatar hosts the FIFA World Cup.
* China's first space station is complete.
* The European Extremely Large Telescope is operational.
* The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope begins full operations.'
* Japanese probe to a Martian moon.
* New Horizons completes its study of the Kuiper Belt.
* The AIDA mission arrives at Didymos.
* The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) is launched.
* Water is becoming a weapon of war.
* Global reserves of antimony are running out.
* Nanotech clothes are growing rapidly in use.
* Poland begins exporting the PL-01 stealth tank.
* Collision of two stars in the binary system KIC 9832227.
* Driverless hover-taxis are operational in Dubai.
=== 2023 ===
* A tipping point for block chain.
* The Aerion AS2 supersonic jet enters service.
* First crewed flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft.
* Mars sample return mission.
* Asteroid sample return mission.
* Launch of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
* Laser-driven fusion energy makes progress.
* The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is operational.
* The Type 26 Global Combat Ship enters service.
* Turkey its 100th anniversary as an independent republic.
* Completion of the London "super sewer".
* Brain implants to restore lost memories.
* Borneo's rainforests have been wiped from the map.
* Driverless high-speed trains begin operating in France.
* Completion of the Stad Ship Tunnel.
=== 2024 ===
* Five-years survival rates for Hodgkin's lymphoma are approaching 100%.
* Vladimir Putin steps down as President of Russia.
* Open-source, 3D printed clothes at near-zero cost.
* The Thirty Metre Telescope is fully operational.
* Completion of the Square Kilometre Array.
* Total solar eclipse across North America.
* Paris hosts the Summer Olympic Games.
* The first probe to fly into the Sun's outer atmosphere.
* Lunar Mission One drills into the Moon's south pole.
* Bio-electronics for treating arthritis are in common use.
* Carsharing has exploded in popularity.
* Wind turbine drone inspection is a multi-billion dollar industry.
* Starlink reaches full capacity.
=== 2025 ===
* The European Spallation Source (ESS) becomes operational.
* Gene therapy for deafness.
* Breast tomosynthesis is in widespread use.
* Unemployment is soaring.
* Small modular nuclear reactors gain widespread adoption.
* Manned missions to the Moon.
* Mouse revival from cryopreservation.
* The threat of bioterrorism is peaking.
* Hypersonic missiles are in military use.
* Some of Britain's most well-known animal species are going extinct.
* A billion of human genomes have been sequenced.
* Human brain simulations are becoming possible.
* 3D-printed human organs.
* China is becoming highly urbanised.
* Vertical farms are common in cities.
* Solid waste is reaching crisis levels.
* Kivalina has been inundated.
* Completion of the East Anglia Zone.
* The UK phases out coal power.
* The Giant Magellan Tellescope is fully operational.
* The first test flight of the Skylon spaceplane.
* The first manned flights from Russia's new spaceport.
* Contact with the Voyager probes is lost.
* High speed rail networks are being expanded in many countries.
* A comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. airspace system is complete.
* Railguns are in use by the U.S. navy.
* The global crowdfunding marked reaches $100bn.
* BepiColombo arrives in orbit around Mercury.
* The final Avatar movie is released.
=== 2026 ===
* The United States is struck by the most devastating earthquake in its history.
* India's reusable launch vehicle is operational.
* The PLATO observatory is operational.
* A synthetic human genome is completed.
* Aquaculture provides the majority of the world's seafood.
* The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is operational.
* The International Linear Collider is completed.
* 3-D printed electronic membranes to prevents hearts attacks.
* Youthful regeneration of aging heart muscle via GDF-11.
* New treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
* Rising sea levels are wreaking havoc on the Maldives.
* Global reserves of indium are running out.
* Construction of the Sagrada Família is complete.
* Robotic hands matching human capabilities.
* The FIFA World Cup is hosted jointly in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
* Mars Science Laboratory is shutting down.
* Expansion of London's Heathrow Airport.
=== 2027 ===
* The BRICs overtake the G7 nations.
* Light-duty hydrogen fuel cell vehicles reach 1 million in annual sales.
* Tokyo and Nagoya are connected by high-speed maglev.
* Carbon sequestration is underway in many nations.
* The Venera-D mission arrives at Venus.
* The asteroid 1999 AN10 makes a close approach.
* The Europa Clipper arrives in orbit.
* The autopsy report for Elvis Presley is made public.
=== 2028 ===
* Completion of the deep Space Gateway.
* Launch of the European ATHENA X-ray observatory.
* China builds the world's largest particle accelerator.
* Printed eletronics are ubiquitous the UK population 70m.
* British newspapers are going out of circulation.
* Launch of the ARIEL spacecraft.
* Delhi becomes the most populous city in the world.
* Los Angeles hosts the Summer Olympic Games.
* Total solar eclipse in Australia and New Zealand.
* Resurrection of several extinct species has been achieved.
* The International space Station is decommisioned.
=== 2029 ===
* Rhinos are extinct in the wild.
* Human-like AI is becoming a reality.
* Heavy automation of supermarkets and retail environments.
* Intelligent advertising.
* Mass application of gene drives on mosquitoes.
* Global reserves of silver are running out.
* Lake Chad disappears from the map.
* Madagascar's radiated tortoise in extinct in the wild.
* Phase 1 of the California High-Speed Rail line is complete.
* Jupiter's Great Red Spot is disappearing.
* The wreck of the Titanic has decomposed.
== 2030s ==
=== 2030 ===
* All television becomes Internet-based.
* The Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) conducts its life-searching mission.
* 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 jave 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 ===
* Service robots number a billion worldwide.
* The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is launched.
* Switzerland phases out nuclear energy.
* Caribbean coral reefs are in danger of being wiped out.
* Unification of Benelux.
* Coastal erosion has destroyed hundreds of UK homes.
* A major supermoon occurs.
=== 2035 ===
* The High-Definition Space Telescope (HDST) is operational.
* The Very Large Hadron Collider is operational.
* 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 ===
* Ectogenesis is transforming reproductive rights.
* Transhuman sports competitors.
* 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 ===
* Establishment of the first manned lunar bases.
* 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 ===
* The final collapse of the European Union.
* Russia is a global food superpower.
* 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.
== 2040s ==
=== 2040 ===
* The Arctic becomes free of sea ice.
* The first definitive evidence of life beyond Earth.
* Swarm robotics are reaching the nanometre scale.
* The RAF Typhoon is phased out and replaced by the Tempest.
* India's economy is rivalling that of China and the U.S.
* Fusion power is nearing commercial availability.
* Deep ocean mining operations are widespread.
* Less than two thirds of the original Congo jungle remains standing.
* Virtual telepathy is dominating personal communications.
* Biorepository and genomic information systems are transforming healthcare.
* Pollen counts have more than doubled.
* Tobacco has been largely eradicated.
* Life expectancy for cystic fibrosis reaches 70.
* Breakthroughs in carbon nanotube production.
* Submarine exploration of Titan.
* China's HSR network has been greatly expanded.
* Completion of the Northeast Corridor high-speed rail route.
=== 2041 ===
* Global average temperatures haves risen by 2°C.
* Annual deaths from cardiovascular disease have reached negligible levels in the U.S.
* Oil spills in the Niger Delta have been cleaned up.
* Orbital solar power is commercially feasible.
* Supercomputers reach the yottaflop scale.
* Completion of the W350 tower in Tokyo.
* Cases of lung cancer have spiked in New York.
=== 2042 ===
* Global population reaches 9 billion.
* White people are minority in the USA.
* NASA Uranus mission.'
* The Diary of Anne Frank enters the U.S. public domain.
* The City of Trees project is completed in Manchester, England.
=== 2043 ===
* The Ross Sea has lost 50% of its summer ice cover.
* Slovenia closes down its only nuclear power plant.
* The Changé-3 lander is shutting down.
=== 2044 ===
* Japan experiences a major volcanic eruption.
* The majority of primate species disappears from the wild.
* The works of J.R.R. Tolkien enter the public domain.
* A tipping point for permafrost melting.
* The last veterans of WW2 are passing away.
* A transglobal highway and rail network has emerged.
* Five-year survival rates for bowel cancer are approaching 100%.
=== 2045 ===
* China's space program is rivalling NASA.
* Humans are becoming intimately merged with machines.
* Homosexual discrimination has declined substantially.
* Air accident fatalities have been eliminated.
* The Chūō Shinkansen high speed maglev route is complete.
* Gulf Coast cities are being abandoned due to super hurricanes.
* Apollo 12's third stage returns to Earth.
* Total solar eclipse in the USA.
* The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is retired from service.
=== 2046 ===
* Japan's population falls bellow 100 million.
* The UK state pension age has risen to 70.
* Carbon pricing is ubiquitous worldwide.
=== 2047 ===
* July 1st:
** "One country, two systems" is renewed in Hong Kong.
* Fully autonomous, intelligent military aircraft.
* Unmanned probe to 2060 Chiron.
=== 2048 ===
* The Antarctic Treaty comes up for review.
* King Crabs are infesting Antarctic marine ecosystems.
=== 2049 ===
* Major extinctions of animal and plant life.
* The Dead Sea is drying up.
* The effects of heat stress on labour capacity have doubled.
* The Fakushima disaster is cleaned up.
== 2050s ==
=== 2050 ===
* Humanity is at a crossroads.
* Nearly half of the Amazon rainforest has been deforested.
* Wildfires have tripled in some regions.
* Traditional wive industries have been severely altered by climate change.
* Fish body size has declined by nearly a quarter.
* Hi-tech, intelligent buildings are revolutionising the urban landscape.
* Smaller, safer, hi-tech automobiles.
* Major advances in air travel comfort.
* Continent-wide supergrids provide much of the world's energy needs.
* China completes the largest water diversion project in history.
=== 2051 ===
* The U.S. population reaches 400 million.
* An interstellar radio message arrives at Gliese 777.
* Britain holds its centennial national exhibition.
=== 2052 ===
* The biggest supermoon of the 21st century.
=== 2053 ===
* Genetically engineered "designer babies for the rich.
* Australia becomes the first country to eliminate cervical cancer.
=== 2054 ===
* Rainfall intensity has increased by 20%.
=== 2055 ===
* Glacier volume in the Everest region has declined by half.
* Spaceflight has taken a leap forward.
* The vast majority of countries have achieved democracy.
* Global population is reaching a plateau.
* Traditional media have fragmented and diversified.
=== 2056 ===
* Breakthrough Starshot obtains images of Alpha Centauri.
* Global average temperatures have risen by 3°C.
=== 2057 ===
* Handheld MRI scanners.
=== 2058 ===
* A billion human brains can be simulated in real time.
* The Beatles' music catalogue enters the public domain.
* A radio telescope is built on the Moon.
=== 2059 ===
* The end of the oil age.
* Mars has a permanent human presence by now.
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