2084 (year)

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2084 (MMLXXXIV) will be a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2084th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 84th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2080s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

In fiction

  • According to the storyline of the 1982 arcade video game Robotron: 2084, in 2084 man perfects the Robotrons, a robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation.
  • In the X-COM Storyline, the Fourth Alien War (AW-IV) starts in 2084.
  • The video game Remember Me is set in Paris 2084.
  • The events described by a fictional version of Evel Knievel in the Midnight Brown song 2084. Including things like the TV series Dog Monkey vs. Monkey Dog and streets made of syrup.
  • In the 1985 Soviet science fiction television miniseries Guest from the Future a schoolboy travels from the year 1984 to the year 2084, there is a forecast of some technical and scientific achievements up to the year 2084.
  • The 1990 science fiction film Total Recall is set in 2084.
  • The Doctor Who story Warriors of the Deep takes place in 2084.
  • A war in Ayreon's universe is set in 2084, said to be the "Sixth Extinction" by the "Forever" aliens (the "Fifth Extinction" was that of the dinosaurs 65 million years prior), causing the extinction of mankind save for the colony on Mars. Due to Mars' incapacity to support life, the Mars colony is effectively doomed, and after the death of its last inhabitant, the last human being, he is re-created as a new soul, the new Universal Migrator.
  • 2084: Tomorrow is Today, a futuristic novel by John William McMullen set in the year 2084 in which the world has spiraled from economic collapse, limited nuclear war, and global anarchy into a United World under the protection of The Program.[2]
  • Diana Wynne Jones' short story No One begins with a reference to the year being 2084
  • In episode 11.16 of The Simpsons, Lisa receives a sticker saying to vote for a gay president in 2084, which, according to them, is a realistic goal.

References

  1. ^ Ian Musgrave (June 5, 2012). "The Transit of Earth from Mars, November 10, 2084". Astroblog. Retrieved 2012-06-16. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help); External link in |author= (help)
  2. ^ McMullen, John. 2084: Tomorrow is Today. AuthorHouse. p. 260. ISBN 978-1-4208-8361-9.