2020s

The 2020s is the 3rd decade of the 21st century of the Anno Domini (common) era. It will begin on January 1, 2020 and end on December 31, 2029.

By the end of the decade, world population is projected to surpass 8 billion people.^[1]

Notable predictions and known events

• Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries.
• The rate of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet will be three times greater than today if the current trend continues^{[citation needed]}.
• By mid-decade, Alpine glaciers are likely to contain only half their 1970's volume.^[2]
  • NASA expects to land another group of astronauts on the moon.
  • NASA expects to the first manned flight to mars in 2020.
  • Voyager 2 is expected to stop transmitting back to Earth in the 2020s^[3]
    • 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.
    • In the film trilogy 'The Terminator' Judgement begins in 2029

    References

    1. ^ see various projections and sources at World population estimates
    2. ^ peopleandplanet.net > climate change > features > ice is melting everywhere
    3. ^ Voyager – Spacecraft – Spacecraft Lifetime. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2003-01-14). Retrieved on 2007-11-04.

    
    

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