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2020-2029
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• Progress towards malaria elimination |

• America-China tensions continue in the Asia-Pacific region | • Gene therapy for deafness | • Breast tomosynthesis is in widespread use |

• Microsoft ends support for Windows 7 | • Generation X is reshaping global politics | • Progress with longevity extension | • First high-altitude test flight of the SpaceX Starship | • Mercury pollution has been greatly reduced | • The PlayStation 5 is launched | • Chang'e 5 lunar exploration mission | • Great conjunction | • Internet use reaches 5 billion worldwide |

• The first Arabian mission to Mars | • NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars | • China's first mission to Mars | • The world's largest insect swarm re-emerges | • A prototype artificial kidney | • Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games | • The James Webb Space Telescope is launched |

• The first exascale computer is deployed | • Level 3 autonomous cars go on sale in Europe | • Crossrail opens in London | • Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics | • Northeast Corridor high-speed train upgrade | • China's first space station is complete | • New Horizons completes its study of the Kuiper Belt | • The AIDA mission arrives at Didymos | • Qatar hosts the FIFA World Cup | • Xi Jinping extends his presidency | • First uncrewed maiden flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) |

• The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Transport is tested by NASA |

• Croatia adopts the euro | • GPT-4 is released | • The Aurora supercomputer comes online | • The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) is launched | • The Vera C. Rubin Observatory achieves first light | • Asteroid sample return mission | • Turkey celebrates its 100th anniversary as an independent republic | • Launch of China's Xuntian space telescope | • The first flight of Ariane 6 | • IBM debuts a 1,000+ qubit quantum computer |

• The next generation of London Tube trains |

• Bulgaria adopts the euro | • The Thirty Metre Telescope is fully operational | • A global agreement on plastic pollution | • Indonesia gets a new capital city | • Total solar eclipse across North America | • First crewed flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft | • Canada's first supertall skyscraper | • Euro 2024 is hosted by Germany | • Paris hosts the Summer Olympic Games | • Lunar Mission One drills into the Moon's south pole | • Launch of the SPHEREx mission | • Bio-electronics for treating arthritis are in common use | • Carsharing has exploded in popularity | • Wind turbine drone inspection is a multi-billion dollar industry | • Open-source, 3D printed clothes at near-zero cost | • Starlink reaches full capacity | • VIPER mission to the lunar south pole | • First flight of the New Glenn reusable rocket | • India's first crewed space flight | • The first probe to fly into the Sun's outer atmosphere | • COVID-19 vaccines are available to 90% of the world |

• Technological unemployment is rising rapidly |

• All television is becoming Internet-based | • Small modular nuclear reactors gain widespread adoption | • Mouse revival from cryopreservation |

• Many cities are banning fossil fuel-powered vehicles | • The threat of bioterrorism is increasing | • Hypersonic missiles are in military use | • Some of Britain's most well-known animal species are going extinct |

• The Martian Moons Exploration probe collects and returns samples |

• Contact with the Voyager probes is lost |

• The ITER experimental fusion reactor is switched on | • A billion human genomes have been sequenced | • Human brain simulations are becoming possible | • 3D-printed human organs | • Vertical farms are common in cities | • Solid waste is reaching crisis levels | • Kivalina has been inundated | • Completion of the East Anglia Zone | • The next solar maximum | • The European Extremely Large Telescope is operational | • The Giant Magellan Telescope is fully operational | • The first test flight of the Skylon spaceplane | • The first manned flights from Russia's new spaceport | • High speed rail networks are being expanded in many countries | • A comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. airspace system is complete | • The global crowdfunding market reaches $100bn | • Sample return mission to Kamo'oalewa | • BepiColombo arrives in orbit around Mercury | • Direct flights from Sydney to London and New York |

• India's reusable launch vehicle is operational |

• The PLATO observatory is operational |

• NASA's Psyche spacecraft makes orbital insertion | • A synthetic human genome is completed | • The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is operational | • The International Linear Collider is completed | • Russia debuts its first reusable rocket | • Italy hosts the Winter Olympics | • 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 | • United States Semiquincentennial | • Mars Science Laboratory is shutting down | • Completion of the Stad Ship Tunnel | • 50TB hard drives |

• The EU ends all energy imports from Russia | • India becomes the most populous country | • 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 Starlab commercial space station is operational | • The Venera-D mission arrives at Venus | • The asteroid 1999 AN10 makes a close approach | • The Square Kilometre Array begins science operations | • New Zealand's first "smoke-free" generation | • The autopsy report for Elvis Presley is made public | • Opening of the New Central Polish Airport | • Completion of the Australia–ASEAN Power Link | • The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is operational |

• VERITAS mission to Venus |

• The Orbital Reef is operational |

• China's economy surpasses that of the U.S. | • One-third of new cars are electric | • Medical marijuana is legal in the majority of countries | • Completion of the Lunar Gateway | • Launch of the European ATHENA X-ray observatory | • China builds the world's largest particle accelerator | • British newspapers are going out of circulation | • Launch of the Comet Interceptor | • Completion of the Brenner Base Tunnel | • 1.4 nm nodes begin mass production | • 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 Type 26 Global Combat Ship enters service | • The final Avatar movie is released |

• Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) explores the Jovian system |

• DAVINCI+ mission to Venus |

• Human-like AI is becoming a reality | • Romania adopts the euro | • Increased automation of banking | • Close approach of the near-Earth asteroid Apophis | • Mass application of gene drives on mosquitoes | • 40 MW floating wind turbines | • Finland bans coal for energy use | • Madagascar's radiated tortoise is extinct in the wild | • Phase 1 of the California High-Speed Rail line is complete | • Expansion of London's Heathrow Airport | • Launch of the ARIEL spacecraft | • Jupiter's Great Red Spot is disappearing | • The wreck of the Titanic has decomposed | • The number of satellites in Earth orbit has grown exponentially |