Some interesting predictions for the next decade.
2014-2060 — At some point during this period, the United States is struck by the most devastating earthquake in its history
2014-2037 — At some point during this period, a major earthquake hits California
2014 — Latvia joins the eurozone | The IPCC releases its Fifth Assessment Report | The European Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is operational | Scotland votes "no" to independence | The first gay marriages are held in England and Wales | The Internet has a greater reach than television | Google Glass is launched to the public | The new World Trade Center is completed | The Shanghai Tower is completed | Brazil hosts the FIFA World Cup | The first solar aircraft to circumnavigate the globe | Completion of the Panama Canal expansion project | The 100th anniversary of World War I | 14 nanometre chips are released | The first products to use memristor technology are becoming available | Smart watches are the latest must-have gadget | Robotic pack mules are entering military service | Laser guns are in naval use | The first test flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft | Virgin Galactic begins offering private suborbital spaceflights | The first test launch of the Falcon Heavy | The MAVEN probe arrives at Mars | India's first Mars mission | Launch of the Sunjammer solar sail | A comet is passing extremely close to Mars | The Rosetta probe deploys its lander on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko | Most telephone calls are made via the Internet now | Increased automation in retail environments | NATO ends combat operations in Afghanistan
2015-2019 — Global economic recovery remains slow | Personal genome sequencing explodes into the mainstream | Five-year survival rates for thyroid cancer are approaching 100% | Virtual reality makes a comeback
2015 — The deadline for the Millennium Development Goals | The Eurasian Union is formed | Expo 2015 is held in Milan, Italy | The Large Hadron Collider reaches its maximum operating power | Windows 9 is released by Microsoft | The world's first fully sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste city | The first self-regulating artificial heart | A new generation of hi-tech supercarriers | The United States and South Korea dissolve the Combined Forces Command | The first large-scale solar updraft towers are operational | Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in British history | DDR4 memory reaches the home PC market | Battery technology gets a boost | 3D printing is a mainstream consumer product | LED lamps are dominating the commercial and domestic lighting markets | 10 nanometre chips enter mass production | The Archival Disc format is launched | Scientists resurrect the woolly mammoth | The Carteret Islands are abandoned | The New Horizons probe arrives at Pluto | The Dawn probe arrives at Ceres | The first advert on the Moon | Trucks with emergency braking systems are mandatory in Europe
2016-2020 — China builds the longest undersea tunnel in the world
2016 — China passes the US in PPP | Euro 2016 is held in France | Rio de Janeiro hosts the Olympic Games | Microchipping of all dogs in England | The first manned flight of SpaceX's Dragon V2 | India's first manned space flight | India launches its second unmanned lunar probe | The International Lunar Observatory begins operations | The first hotel in space | Balloon trips up to 20 miles high | InSight touches down on Mars | The Juno probe arrives at Jupiter | The mining industry is highly automated | Agricultural robots are appearing on farms | High-definition CCTV cameras are ubiquitous | OLED displays are in widespread use | New drug delivery methods for brain-related conditions | A pill to prevent sunburn | Completion of the i5K project | China completes the largest environmental cleanup in its history | Polymer banknotes are introduced by the Bank of England | United States Presidential Election | The Gotthard Base Tunnel is completed | Launch of the Titanic II
2017 — The European Union has been expanded | Worsening crisis in Yemen | China establishes the largest megacity in the world | The world's first kilometre-high skyscraper | A new tallest building for Los Angeles | The world's first Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) platform begins operations | The Nabucco gas pipeline is completed | India completes construction of the Dibang Dam | The M1A3 Abrams tank enters the battlefield | The remaining JFK files are released | Total solar eclipse in the US | China launches an unmanned sample return mission to the Moon | The first test flight of NASA's Space Launch System | The first manned flight of the Dream Chaser | Launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) | The Cheops satellite is deployed to study exoplanets | The world's first lunar tourist | Sales of electric and hybrid trucks reach 100,000 annually | Web-connected video devices exceed the global population | Electronic paper is seeing widespread use | Traditional newspapers are becoming obsolete | Tooth regeneration is transforming dental care | Cosmetic surgery has doubled its market size | Wireless, implantable devices that monitor a range of health conditions in real time | The world's first HIV vaccine is commercially available | A new treatment for prostate cancer | BioCassava Plus receives regulatory approval | The world's largest mud volcano stops erupting
2018-2048 — Uganda is an oil-producing nation
2018 — A missile defence shield is deployed in Europe | The first private supersonic jet | The African Central Bank is established | East Africa's largest ever infrastructure project | Russia hosts the FIFA World Cup | The first manned flights from Russia's new spaceport | The James Webb Space Telescope is launched | The Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe arrives at 1999 JU3 | Universal flu vaccine | Polio has been eradicated | A drug to prevent obesity | Crossrail opens in London | The City Circle Line opens in Copenhagen | The Transbay Transit Center is completed in San Francisco | Many complex surgeries are performed by robots | Robot insect spies are in military use | Ubiquitous internet nodes connect appliances, vehicles, etc. | Consumer devices with 100 Gbit/s transfer speeds | Portable, long-range 3D scanning | Scientists drill into Earth's mantle | The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline is completed in Canada | The market for biofuels is experiencing a period of rapid growth | The last of Nigeria's rainforests have been felled
2019 — China's first high-tech stealth fighter enters service | A new generation of U.S. tanks | British troops leave Germany | The ExoMars rover touches down on Mars | The first manned outpost beyond the Moon begins assembly | The first mission to a gas giant using solar sail propulsion | The first prototype Stratobus is launched | Launch of the 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 | Lunar-resonant streetlights are appearing in many cities | US copyright begins to expire, starting with all works from 1923 | Jordan opens its first nuclear power plant | The East Side Access subway extension opens in New York | The Aral Sea disappears from the map | Oil prices are becoming dangerously high
2020-2035 — World oil crisis
2020-2026 — The Euclid Space Telescope reveals new insights into dark matter and dark energy
2020-2025 — Five-year survival rates for Hodgkin's lymphoma are approaching 100%
2020 — 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 | A cure for malaria | Progress with longevity extension | Genetically engineered "super" bananas | Ultra High Definition Television (4320p) is common in homes | Holographic TV is going mainstream | Africa and the Middle East are linked by a trans-continental bridge | Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games | Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) has been significantly expanded | The first self-sufficient, car-free city in mainland China | Completion of the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link | The UK has expanded its offshore grid connections | Smart meters in every UK home | Public smoking is banned across every US state | 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 | BepiColombo arrives in orbit around Mercury | Video games with photo-realistic graphics | Expo 2020 is held in Dubai
2021-2025 — Manned exploration of near-Earth asteroids
2021 — Global average temperatures have risen by 1°C | 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 are entering the market | The world's first artificial kidney | Mind reading technology is being deployed for security purposes | The first Arabian mission to Mars | The maiden flight of Ariane 6 | Fully reusable, single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft | 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 ITER experimental fusion reactor is switched on | Solar grid parity has been reached in almost 10% of the US | Germany phases out nuclear energy | 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 | 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
2023 — 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 | Turkey celebrates 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 | Gorillas are going extinct in Central Africa
2024-2030 — The PLATO observatory is operational
2024 — The biggest refugee crisis in world history | Gay marriage is legal in every US state | African elephants are going extinct in the wild | Open-source, 3D printed clothes at near-zero cost | Completion of the Square Kilometre Array | 99% of near-Earth asteroids have been catalogued | The first probe to fly into the Sun's outer atmosphere
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