By the mid-2020s, the world population is projected to surpass 8 billion people, half a billion more than the 2017 population of 7.5 billion.
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January 19, 2038 – 32-bit computer clocks overflow to represent the date as December 13, 1901.
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The Mars-Grunt sample return mission is proposed to launch in the mid-2020s.
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Assuming that the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation runs through a 70-year quasi-cycle (after peaks in 1880 and 1950), its current warm phase is likely to reach its peak.
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Voyager 2 is expected to stop transmitting back to Earth in the 2020s.
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The ESA (Europe), CNSA (China), FKA (Russia), and ISRO (India) each plan to send a human mission to the Moon.
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Plans are under discussion for a human mission to Mars by the middle of the decade.
Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to
wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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In 2008, futurist Ray Kurzweil put 2029 as the year most likely for a breakthrough in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He expects that around this time, computers will reach human intelligence levels, and shortly thereafter surpass the capabilities of the human brain.
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As of December 2009, the United States Census Bureau projects a world population of 8.4 billion by 2030.
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By 2022, India is projected to surpass China as the most populous country.