2030

'2030' ('MMXXX') will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Anniversaries

Predicted events

References to 2030 in fiction

Computer and video games

Film

Television

Media franchises

Anniversaries

===Notable bicentennials===
(regarding events in 1830)

★ April 6: Organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

★ May 13: Independence of Ecuador

★ May 28: Enactment of the Indian Removal Act

★ July 18: First constitution of Uruguay

★ July 21: Independence of Belgium

★ December 10: 200th anniversary of Emily Dickinson's birth
===Other notable anniversaries===

★ February: 100th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto

★ August 16: 250th anniversary of the Battle of Camden

★ July 17:75th anniversary of Disneyland

★ August: 25th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

★ September 17: 400th anniversary of the founding of Boston, Massachusetts

★ October 7: 250th anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain

★ December 1: 75th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man

★ December 8: 50th anniversary of John Lennon's death (1980)

★ December 20: 150th anniversary of the Action at Bronkhorstspruit

Predicted events

★ Blended wing body aircraft might carry passengers. [1]

★ The end of the "Olduvai cliff" will occur, marking the return to the dark ages, during or before this year according to "The Peak Of World Oil Production And The Road To The Olduvai Gorge" by Richard C. Duncan ('Briefly explained: "When the electricity goes out, you are back in the Dark Age. And the Stone Age is just around the corner."' [2]).

★ "By 2030, the world will have only enough food to feed everyone at the level of an Indian peasant (on average)." This according to the Worldwatch Institute, as reported in ''Newsweek'', September 12, 1994.

★ The rise of artificial super intelligence made possible for commercial use, by the hardware cost of human-equivalent computerized brains dropping below 1 million dollars, According to Hans Moravec (Judging from Moore's law and the average neural density of the human brain). [3]

★ FIFA's World Cup will have its 24th edition, 100 years after the first one. Uruguay is often mentioned as a possible host for this edition, because it hosted the inaugural edition in 1930 but, so far, no countries have yet offered to host the tournament.

★ The European Space Agency hopes to land humans on Mars between 2030 and 2035.

★ November 5: United States Congressional elections

★ The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has set a goal of constructing a manned lunar base in 2030. Astronauts would be sent to the Moon by around 2020 so that they will start construction of the base to be completed by 2030.

★ Scientists predict Arctic Ice will completely melt in the summer of 2030.

References to 2030 in fiction

Computer and video games

★ Set in 2030:

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★ '' (1999)

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★ '' (2004)

Film

★ ''Back to the Future Part II'' (1989): In the first timeline of the future, Marty McFly Jr. is released from prison.

★ ''The Time Machine'' (2002): Time traveller Alexander Hartdegen stops in this year 2030 where he talks to a holographic, artificial-intelligence librarian. Also in this year mining is occurring on the Moon for the development of lunar homes.

★ ''The Kid'' (2000): At the end of the movie where the main character finds his 70 year old self, but differing to other movies there were no changes in anything that was seen (planes, dinners and clothing).

Television

★ Set in 2030:

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★ ''Century City'' (2004)

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★ '' (2002–2003)

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★ ''How I Met Your Mother'' (2005–present): Specifically, the framing sequences with the 52-year-old Ted.

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★ ''Bart to the Future''

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★ ''Phil of the Future'' episode: The Giggle — Keely is seen twice as a beautiful news reporter and then as an overweight woman who is obsessed with cats.

Media franchises

★ ''Star Trek'': Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive, is born.