Future Timeline

Gonna have to delete the 2025 railgun prediction:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/ ... _railguns/

And this is getting really interesting, it's probably worth going deeper into it.

A lot of useful trends/predictions here:

https://www.delawarenorth.com/~/media/d ... igital.pdf


Archived version, in case it disappears from the web:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220510165 ... igital.pdf

2023 – Launch of China's Xuntian space telescope

350 times larger field of view than Hubble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuntian

https://eurasiantimes.com/china-claims- ... ld-bigger/

2030 – 1 TW of solar capacity is deployed annually

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/05/16/ ... y-by-2030/

12,000 – 13,000 AD – The next Northern Hemisphere summer insolation maximum

The "Green Sahara" is expected to reappear during this time (depending on if/when climate change is fixed)

https://www.livescience.com/will-sahara ... green.html

Hinkley delayed yet again!

From 2026 to 2027.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-61519609

And yet more billions over budget.

Some very useful data here, which could be extrapolated over the next 200-300 years:

viewtopic.php?p=20701#p20701

https://ourworldindata.org/peak-agriculture-land

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/glob ... =~OWID_WRL


Edit: Related to the above –

Some of these are on our timeline already, but there's a couple more which could be added:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-61511546

2029 – Romania joins the eurozone

This follows Croatia (2023) and Bulgaria (2024).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargeme ... largements