The 2020`s

Overview
This is the timeline of the 2020's.

Timeline
2020 - Worldwide internet users reach 5 billion. Sceintists figure out how to create complex organs grown from stem cells. Sweden becomes the first oil-free country in the world. Tokyo hosts the 2020 summer Olympics

2021 - The ESA has developed fully reuseable, singe stage orbit spacecraft. They use this spacecraft to make the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years.

2024 - A cure for the common cold (invented in 2018), is now avalible for piblic use. The Square Kilometer Array, is now completed and operational.

2025 - China's economy is still booming. Skyscraper farms are now apearing in cities. Many high-speed networks are expaning in countries. The Afriacan-Middle-Eastern-Transcontinental brige (which began work in 2016), is now comlpeted and operaitional.

2026 - New treatments for Alzheimer's disease have been invented. The Sagrada Familia has completed construction.

2028 - The ISS is decommisioned, and thrown into the Pacific Ocean.

2029 - The Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) is launched, and expected to reach Europa in 2030.

The interaction of the three main decadal solar cycles suggests an upcoming reduction in solar activity, with a low-energy period centered around 2020.

As suggested by John Maddox of Nature, this might mitigate the global warming (at least temporarily) in the 2010s and 2020s.

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 peak during this decade.

Each of ESA (Europe), CNSA (China), FKA (Russia), and ISRO (India) plan to send a manned mission to the Moon in this decade.

According to a report released by the National Intelligence Council, the United States will experience the relative decline of its economic and military power, driven both by the rise of new behemoths such as China, India and the EU and by domestic constraints on its global leadership.

Voyager 2 is expected to stop transmitting back to Earth in the 2020s.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil puts 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.

Intel predicts the performance of supercomputers to reach zettaflops scale by 2029.

Near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass Earth within the orbits of geosynchronous communication satellites on Friday, April 13, 2029.

By the end of the decade, the world population is projected to surpass 8 billion people, half a billion more than 2020, representing a slowdown in growth from the 2010s, which are expected to increase the population by 700 million.

The Mars-Grunt sample return mission is proposed to launch in the mid-2020s.

China's coal production will peak and then rapidly decline in the year 2027.

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