2045

Predicted and scheduled events

 January 1 – Books, movies, and other works published in 1949 will enter the public domain in the United States.
 June 15 - 100th anniversary of the ABC News.
 August 12 – A solar eclipse will occur from northern California to Florida.
 October 24 – 100th anniversary of the United Nations

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 Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts a technological singularity for 2045, i.e. a runaway cycle of self-improvement by intelligent machines, resulting in explosive technological development.
 Based on Ray Kurzweil's ideas, Time magazine predicts humans will be immortal by this year."2045: The year man becomes immortal , published on 10 February 2011.
 Demographic projections "foresee the population of Egypt overtaking that of Russia by 2045," according to Niall Ferguson."The Year the World Really Changed," Newsweek, November 16, 2009
 Two of Japan's largest cities - Tokyo and Osaka - will be connected by a direct high-speed maglev route.
 The United Kingdom is set to overtake Germany as Europe's leading economy."The N-11: More Than an Acronym"  - Goldman Sachs study of N11 nations, Global Economics Paper No: 153, March 28, 2007.

In fiction
 In the novel 2045: A Story of Our Future, Peter Seidel portrays what the world could be like in 2045, if current trends in environmental destruction, population growth, and economic inequality continue.
 Beginning of Corporation War in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
 In South Africa white minority rule comes to an end as most of the whites are massacred in an uprising, in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge.
 The American Dad character Klaus has a body again and a grandson.
 The events portrayed in the movie Critters 4 take place in 2045.
 Time in History where Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars, the 3rd Tiberium War takes place.
 In Macross 7, The main events of the series take place in this year.
 Doomsday in Angels & Airwaves movie L)VE (LOVE)

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