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2030 (MMXXX) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Predicted and scheduled events
- The world will need at least 50 percent more food, 45 percent more energy and 30 percent more water, according to UN estimates.[1]
- The European Space Agency hopes to land humans on Mars between 2030 and 2035.[citation needed]
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will construct a manned lunar base.[2]
- Planned Russian manned mission to the Moon.[3]
- The majority of New Zealand cars will be hybrid, bio-fuel, or electric.[4]
- The joint venture partnership between Volkswagen Group China and SAIC Motor is due to end.
- By 2030, "advanced countries will be competing for immigrants," because of declining birthrates, according to George Friedman.[5]
- "More robots than people in developed countries" is also predicted for 2030.[6]
- The entire infrastructure of the California High-Speed Rail system will be completed.[citation needed]
- Saudi Arabia will have constructed the last of 16 planned nuclear reactors.[7]
- It is expected that Sydney will have a tram network by the year 2030.
- Kenya is predicted to be a developed country by this year.
- Computer hard drives with 60TB storage capacities will be available.[8]
- FIFA's World Cup will take place in a country to be selected, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the first World Cup in Uruguay in 1930.
In fiction
Literature
- Set in 2030:
- 2030: A Day in The Life of Tomorrow's Kids (Amy Zuckerman and James Daly; Dutton Children's Books; 2009)
- 2030 : The Real Story of What Happens to America, a 2011 novel by Albert Brooks[9]
Computer and video games
- Set in 2030:
Film
- Theodore Rex (1995)
- Disney's The Kid (2000): At the end of the movie where the main character finds his 70 year old self, but – differing from other movies – there were no changes in anything that was seen (planes, dinners and clothing).
- The Time Machine (2002): Time traveller Alexander Hartdegen stops on May 24, 2030 where he talks to a holographic, artificial-intelligence librarian called Vox. Also in this year, mining is occurring on the Moon for the development of lunar homes.
- Click (2006): Michael arrives at his son's wedding.
- Death Racers (2008): The film begins in 2030 (with the outbreak of a second American civil war) and progresses into the year 2033
- Repo! The Genetic Opera: The mass organ failures depicted in the film occur in this year.
- Race to Mars: Humans from the United States, Canada, Japan, France, and Russia embark on a mission to Mars
- Super: A Kannada-language movie directed by Upendra set in a Utopian India in the year 2030. It begins in 2030, regresses back to the current (2010), and ends in 2030.
Music
- I Do (Young Jeezy song) Andre 3000 mentions in a lyric 'And maybe 2030 our baby, she’ll be nerdy make the whole club swoon'
- In the futuristic music video for Katy Perry's song E.T., there's a scene at a dump site where a dead bird is in a case, and the case says "Pigeon. Common bird, extinct in 2030."
Television
- Set in 2030:
- Astro Boy (1980 TV series)
- The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future" (2000)
- 2030 CE (2002–2003)
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002–2003)
- Century City (2004)
- How I Met Your Mother (2005–present): Specifically, the framing sequences with the 52-year-old Ted.
- 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.
- Casi Angeles Season 3 (2009) take place in this year, after at end of season 2, the main characters travel to future
- Outcast (2011): Forthaven is first established on the planet Carpathia.
See also
References
- ^ Chestney, Nina (January 30, 2012). "World lacks enough food, fuel as population soars: U.N." Reuters. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ^ "Japan Plans Moon Base By 2030". Moon Daily. August 3, 2006. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ^ Wired UK (2012-3-14). "Russia Plans Moon Base, Mars Network by 2030". Wired.com. Retrieved 2012-3-15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - ^ "New Zealand's Energy Outlook to 2030" (PDF). Ministry of Economic Development, Government of New Zealand. November 2006.
- ^ Friedman, George (2009). The Next 100 Years. Anchor Books. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-385-51705-8.
- ^ Tambini, Michael (2004). "Eyewitness: Future". Dorling Kindersley Limited. p. 59. ISBN 0-7566-0684-5.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Saudi plans 16 reactors by 2030". World Nuclear News. June 2, 2011.
- ^ http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/373651/seagate-creates-1tb-square-inch-hard-drives
- ^ Maslin, Janet (May 1, 2011). "A Wry Eye on Problems of the Future". The New York Times. Retrieved March 5, 2012.