2nd February 2023

2051 – Launch of the X-ray Great Observatory

The X-ray Great Observatory is the third and final project in a series of long-term, next-generation space telescopes developed by NASA.

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1st February 2023

2047 – Launch of the Far-Infrared (FIR) Great Observatory

The Far-Infrared (FIR) Great Observatory is the second in a trio of next-generation space telescopes. It has 1,000 times the sensitivity and resolution of any previous far-infrared telescope.

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31st January 2023

2041 – Launch of the Habitable Worlds Observatory

A successor to the James Webb Space Telescope is launched in the early 2040s, able to directly image Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars.

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27th January 2023

2045 – Advances in LED and laser systems

By 2045, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers are much cheaper, better, and more energy efficient than in earlier decades. This has led to improvements in a number of industrial and consumer applications.

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19th January 2023

2029 – 40 MW floating wind turbines

This year sees the deployment of a gigantic new wind turbine, developed by Norwegian company World Wide Wind.

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2nd January 2023

2023 – GPT-4 is released

GPT-4 is a deep learning model that uses a vast number of parameters to generate human-like text, demonstrating even greater capabilities than GPT-3.

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28th December 2022

2023 – The Aurora supercomputer comes online

In 2023, Aurora becomes the world's fastest supercomputer and only the second to be measured in exaFLOPS (defined as a billion billion floating point operations per second).

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4th December 2022

2042 – Older IBM mainframe clocks are overflowing

The Time-of-Day (TOD) clock, used on some of IBM's older mainframe computers, has a cycle of just under 143 years beginning on 1st January 1900. This means it wraps on 18th September 2042.

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1st December 2022

2041 – Sound Transit 3 is completed in Washington

Sound Transit 3 is one of the largest upgrades of a public transport system in U.S. history, completed over 25 years from 2016 to 2041.

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20th November 2022

2037 – Global population reaches 9 billion

15 years after the world's population reached 8 billion, the next milestone of 9 billion people is reached in 2037.

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