2010
Automatic translators allow monolingual humans to converse with any
speaker of any major human language.
2015
Bandwidth has increased enormously due to fiber optics and
spread-spectrum radio.
2020
Almost all overt tyranny has been eliminated.
Physicists have confirmed that the fate of the universe is
asymptotic expansion.
Most text, images, audio, and video is produced and consumed
digitally. Unauthorized reproduction and distribution of such media
is routine.
1st Martian sample return has revealed no conclusive fossil
evidence of life.
2030
20% of former fideists have become mystics.
Radio astronomers have discovered signals from extraterrestrial
intelligence.
Computer display technology plateaus with cheap flat panels and
retinal projectors.
2040 Physicists have completed a quantum unification theory.
Personal bodily flight has become commercialized.
Transonic flight still serves just a few intercontinental
routes.
2050
Molecular biologists have detailed description of how life on Earth
began.
Computing is limited not by processing, storage, or bandwidth but
by heat, latency, and batteries.
Fresh water availability is now limited only by energy costs of
transportation and desalinization.
Automated vehicle/traffic control gives rail-like traffic flow to
roads.
Privacy is curtailed by commercial availability of mobile
remote-controlled microsensors.
2075
Physicists have reached limits of knowing why fundamental physical
laws are as they are.
Hydrogen fuel cells are replacing internal combustion of fossil
fuels.
VTOL aircraft are as widely owned as RVs in 2000.
2100 Expected and maximum human longevity have increased by 30
years.
Humans are able to record and archive all they ever see, hear, and
say.
Most of humanity is using a common currency descended from the
American dollar.
Unmanned radio observatory has been established on far side of
moon.
2150
Remaining fideisms have diluted into agnostic mysticism; true
fideists dwindle.
Fusion provides major parts of humanity's power.
Most psychotropic drugs are legal; addiction is prevented
neurochemically.
2200
Permanent manned space stations in Earth orbit have been
established.
1st artifactual life and artificial intelligence systems have been
created and enfranchised.
Obesity and other nutritional diseases are curable.
2300
1st Von Neumann probes have been dispatched from Earth.
Most genetic, infectious, immunological, and cancerous disease is
preventable or curable.
Most of humanity enjoys Western standards of living and
productivity.
Earth's population has stabilized at around 20 billion.
The workweek has stabilized at around 20 hours.
2400
Extropian positivism has displaced most other belief systems.
2500
Heat pollution has become the last significant environmental
problem.
A truly global federal government exists.
2880
Asteroid 1950DA (1km wide) has a 1/300 chance of hitting Earth
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