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2010-2019 future timeline

2010 - Haiti is struck by a devastating earthquake | The longest solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs | Apple debuts the iPad | The Constellation Program is essentially cancelled | The worst marine environmental disaster in US history | Scientists create synthetic life | One-fifth of Pakistan is flooded | Solar power is plunging in cost | Augmented Reality is entering the mainstream | Macular degeneration is curable | The first demonstration of solar-sail technology | Scientists trap antimatter | Speech-to-speech translation is common in mobile phones | Major breakthrough in robotics

2011-2037 - At some point during this period, a devastating earthquake hits California

2011-2015 - British forces withdraw from Afghanistan

2011 - Japan is devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami | The death of Osama bin Laden | Worsening economic crisis in Greece | The world's first synthetic organ transplant | South Sudan becomes an independent nation | The Space Shuttle fleet is retired | Global population reaches 7bn | USB 3.0 is widely available | Multi-touch surface computing enters the consumer market | The first open petaflop supercomputer comes online | 22 nanometre chips enter mass production | Consumer-level robotics are booming | World's first commercial spaceport | China's Three Gorges Dam is fully operational | The largest desalination plant in Australia is operational

2012 - Economic chaos grips the world | Marijuana is fully legalised in Copenhagen | The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II | The United States and South Korea dissolve the Combined Forces Command | Euro 2012 is held in Poland and Ukraine | London hosts the Olympic Games | Completion of the International Space Station | Mars Science Lab explores the Red Planet | Windows 8 is released | Quad-core smartphones and tablets | Nintendo launches the Wii U | Brain-computer interfaces allowing the paralysed to walk again | The world's first 1-Gigawatt offshore wind farm | Mass hysteria grips the world as the Mayan calendar reaches the end of its current cycle

2013 - Solar flares are disrupting Earth's magnetosphere | China overtakes the USA in scientific research | The Gaia mission is launched | 3D technologies are widespread | The first products to use memristor technology are becoming available | Full-body scanners are mandatory in US airports | Direct high-speed rail from London to Frankfurt and Amsterdam | The expansion of the Port of Rotterdam is completed, tripling its capacity | 14nm chips enter mass production | The first test launch of the Falcon Heavy | India launches its second lunar exploration mission

2014 - The IPCC releases its Fifth Assessment Report | The Internet has a greater reach than television | The new World Trade Center is completed | The Shanghai Tower is completed | Brazil hosts the FIFA World Cup | The Large Hadron Collider reaches its maximum operating power | The first solar aircraft to circumnavigate the globe | Completion of the Panama Canal expansion project | Personalised DNA sequencing for under $100 | Sony launches the PS4 | Terabyte SD cards are available | Robotic pack mules are entering military service | The first test flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft | The MAVEN probe arrives at 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

2015-2019 - Global economic depression | Virtual Reality makes a comeback | Tigers are going extinct

2015 - The deadline for the Millennium Development Goals | Expo 2015 is held in Milan, Italy | The world's first fully sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste city | The world's first lunar tourist | A new generation of hi-tech supercarriers | The first large-scale solar updraft towers are operational | Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history | Gay marriage is legal in the United Kingdom | Battery technology gets a boost | 3D printing enters the consumer market | OLED screens are becoming widespread | 10 nanometre chips enter mass production | Scientists resurrect the woolly mammoth| Lifesaver bottles are in widespread use | The Carteret Islands are abandoned | The New Horizons probe arrives at Pluto | Dawn arrives at Ceres | Voyager I enters the heliopause

2016 - China passes the US in PPP | Euro 2016 is held in France | Rio de Janeiro hosts the Olympic Games | Apple Inc. achieves a market capitalisation of one trillion dollars | US vehicles are becoming more fuel-efficient | India's first manned space flight | The first hotel in space | The Juno probe arrives at Jupiter | Agricultural robots are appearing on farms | Laser guns are in naval use | Holographic versatile disc (HVD) supersedes Blu-ray | New drug delivery methods for brain-related conditions | A pill to prevent sunburn | Completion of the i5K project | The Strait of Messina Bridge is completed | China completes the largest environmental cleanup in its history | The East Side Access subway extension opens in New York | United States Presidential Election | The Gotthard Base Tunnel is completed

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 | 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 | Sales of electric and hybrid trucks reach 100,000 annually | Electronic paper is seeing widespread use | Traditional newspapers are becoming obsolete | Tooth regeneration is transforming dental care | Cosmetic surgery has doubled its market size | Portable medical lasers that seal wounds | Teleportation of simple molecules

2018 - A missile defence shield is deployed in Europe | The African Central Bank is established | Oil drilling gets underway in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | Russia hosts the FIFA World Cup | The James Webb telescope is launched | 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 | 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 | The ITER experimental fusion reactor is switched on | The International Linear Collider is completed | The ExoMars rover touches down on Mars | Acute spinal injuries are fully treatable| Computers break the exaflop barrier | Bionic eyes are commercially available | 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 Aral Sea disappears from the map | Oil demand is outpacing supply by a significant margin

 

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