2020s
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| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
| Centuries: | 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1990s 2000s 2010s - 2020s - 2030s 2040s 2050s |
| Years: | 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 |
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]
Almost all of Generation Z will be in adulthood by the year 2025 and the first members of the next generation after Generation Z will become teenagers.
[edit] Notable predictions and known events
- The interaction of the three main decadal solar cycles suggests an upcoming reduction in solar activity, with a low-energy period centered around 2020.[2] As suggested by John Maddox of Nature, this might mitigate the global warming (at least temporarily) in the 2010s and 2020s.[3]
- The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is projected to peak around 2020, as it runs through an 70-year quasi-cycle (after peaks in ≈1880 and ≈1950).[4]
- By mid-decade, Alpine glaciers are likely to contain only half the volume they had in the 1970s.[5]
- According to the Aurora programme roadmap, the European Space Agency will send a manned mission to the Moon in 2020.
- 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 and India and domestic constraints on its global leadership.[6]
- Voyager 2 is expected to stop transmitting back to Earth in the 2020s[7]
- 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.[8]
- Intel predicts the performance of supercomputers to reach zettaflops scale by 2029.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ see various projections and sources at World population estimates
- ^ Berger, Wolfgang H.; et al. (2002). "A Case for Climate Cycles: Orbit, Sun and Moon". Climate development and history of the North Atlantic realm. Berlin: Springer. pp. 101–123. ISBN 3540432019.
- ^ Maddox, John (1995). "Natural antidote to global warming?". Nature 377 (6546): 193. doi:.
- ^ Enfield, David B.; Cid-Serrano, Luis (2009). "Secular and multidecadal warmings in the North Atlantic and their relationships with major hurricane activity". International Journal of Climatology Forthcoming. doi:.
- ^ peopleandplanet.net > climate change > features > ice is melting everywhere.[unreliable source?]
- ^ Finn, Peter; Pincus, Walter (2008-11-21). "Report Sees Nuclear Arms, Scarce Resources as Seeds of Global Instability". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/21/AR2008112100091.html.
- ^ "Voyager – Spacecraft – Spacecraft Lifetime". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 2003-01-14. http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/spacecraftlife.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-04.
- ^ Briggs, Helen (2008-02-16). "Machines 'to match man by 2029'". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7248875.stm.
- ^ "IDF: Intel says Moore's Law holds until 2029". Heise Online. 2008-04-04. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106017.
