2045
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2045 (MMXLV) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2045th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 45th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2040s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- August 12 – A solar eclipse will occur from northern California to Florida.
- Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts a technological singularity for 2045, i.e. a runaway cycle of self-improvement by intelligent machines, resulting in explosive technological development.[1]
- Based on Ray Kurzweil's ideas, Time magazine predicts humans will be immortal by this year.[2]
- Demographic projections "foresee the population of Egypt overtaking that of Russia by 2045," according to Niall Ferguson.[3]
- Two of Japan's largest cities - Tokyo and Osaka - will be connected by a direct high-speed maglev route.[4]
- According to a 2003 NASA study, a manned mission and subsequent colonization of Jupiter's moon Callisto may become possible around this year.[5]
- The 2045 Initiative ends.
In fiction
References
- ^ Lamb, Gregory M. (December 10, 2005). "Progress at light speed: Ray Kurzweil". USA Today. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
- ^ Grossman, Lev (February 10, 2011). "Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge - TIME". Content.time.com. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ^ "The Year the World Really Changed," Newsweek, November 16, 2009
- ^ [1] Archived November 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "High Power MPD Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) for Artificial Gravity HOPE Missions to Callisto" (PDF). Trajectory.grc.nasa.gov. Retrieved November 11, 2015.