Future Scenario : World’s Events of 2040s – World’s timeline 2040-2049

Category : All, Future, Important Dates · by khichdionline Feb 12th, 2015

2040 — India’s economy is rivalling that of China and the U.S. | Fusion power is nearing commercial availability | “Energy islands” are widespread in coastal regions | Deep ocean mining operations are widespread | Less than two-thirds of the original Congo jungle remains standing | Virtual telepathy is dominating personal communications | Biorepository and genomic information systems are transforming healthcare | Pollen counts have more than doubled | Tobacco has been largely eradicated | Life expectancy for cystic fibrosis reaches 70 | Claytronics are revolutionising consumer products | Breakthroughs in carbon nanotube production | Submarine exploration of Titan | China’s HSR network has been greatly expanded | Completion of the Northeast Corridor high-speed rail route

2041 — Global average temperatures have risen by 2°C | Annual deaths from cardiovascular disease have reached negligible levels in the U.S. | Orbital solar power is commercially feasible

2042 — Global population reaches 9 billion | White people are a minority in the USA

2043 — The Ross Sea has lost 50% of its summer ice cover | Slovenia closes down its only nuclear power plant

2044 — A tipping point for permafrost melting | The last veterans of WW2 are passing away | A transglobal highway and rail network has emerged | Five-year survival rates for bowel cancer are approaching 100%

2045 — Humans are becoming intimately merged with machines | Homosexual discrimination has declined substantially | Air accident fatalities have been eliminated | The Chuo Shinkansen high speed maglev route is complete | Gulf Coast cities are being abandoned due to super hurricanes | Apollo 12’s third stage returns to Earth | Total solar eclipse in the USA

2045-2049 — Major extinctions of animal and plant life

2046 — Japan’s population falls below 100 million | The UK state pension age has risen to 70

2047 — “One country, two systems” is renewed in Hong Kong | Fully autonomous, intelligent military aircraft | Unmanned probe to 2060 Chiron

2048 — The Antarctic Treaty comes up for review

2049 — Robots are a common feature of homes and workplaces | The Dead Sea is drying up | The effects of heat stress on labour capacity have doubled | The Fukushima disaster is cleaned up