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2040-2045

• China's space program is revolving NASA

2040

• India's economy is rivalling that of China and the US • 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 • All civil domestic aviation in Norway is electric

2041-2046

Experiences Japan experiences a major volcanic eruption

2041

Average Global average temperatures have risen by 2 C • Annual deaths from cardiovascular disease have reached negligible levels in the US • 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

2042-2067

Majority The majority of primate species are disappearing from the wild

2042-2045

• Tanzanite reserves are depleted

2042

• Global population reaches 9 billion • White people are a 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 Chang'e-3 lander is shutting down

2044

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

Mans 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 Otal Total solar eclipse in the USA • The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is retired from service

2045-2049

• Major extinctions of animal and plant life

2046

'S Japan's population falls below 100 million • The UK state pension age has risen to 70 • Carbon pricing is ubiquitous worldwide

2047

One "One country, two systems" is renewed in Hong Kong ul Fully autonomous, intelligent military aircraft • Unmanned probe to 2060 Chiron

2048-2058

• Glacier volume in the Everest region has declined by half

2048

• The Antarctic Treaty comes up for review • King crabs are infesting Antarctic marine ecosystems • Bionic eyes are perfected

2049

• Completion of China's Belt and Road Initiative • The Dead Sea is drying up • The effects of heat stress on labor capacity have doubled • The Boeing 747 is retired from service • The Fukushima disaster is cleaned up

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