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2030 (MMXXX) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2030th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 30th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2030s decade.

Scheduled events

  • Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is expected to be completed by 2030.[1]
  • A Japanese construction firm, the Shimizu Corporation, in concert with many research firms and government agencies, has plans for an underwater city of 5,000 people called the "ocean spiral" 4.5 km (2.8 mi) off the Japanese coast, which will consist of a giant sphere containing homes and businesses situated just below the surface, held up by a 14 km (9 mi) spiral descending to the seabed, where there will be a submarine port and a factory powering the city by using microorganisms that turn carbon dioxide into methane. The Shimizu Corporation plans to start construction in 2025.[2][3]

Set goals

Predicted astronomical events

Projections

  • The world will need at least 50% more food, 45% more energy and 30% more water than it did in 2012, according to United Nations High Level Panel on Global Sustainability estimates.[11]
  • India will surpass China as the most populous country this year or earlier.[12]
  • According to projections by the United Nations, the world population of humans is estimated to be between approximately 7,800,000,000 (7.8 billion) and 8,500,000,000 (8.5 billion) people.
  • A study estimated that due to continued economic growth in Africa, most impoverished Sub-Saharan African countries will graduate from low to middle-income status by 2030.[13]
  • It is estimated that the global middle class will number about 4.9 billion people, about 66% of whom will live in Asia,[14] and 80% living in what in 2015 is considered the developing world.[15] Overall, middle classes will be the most important economic and social sector, and a majority of the world's population will be out of poverty.[16]
  • Of the world's population, 60% will live in urban areas due to rapid urbanization.[17] It is also estimated that there will be 41 megacities that will collectively contain 9% of the world's population.[18] All but one will be in Asia or Africa due to rapid urbanization on those continents.[19]
  • According to a report by all 16 US intelligence agencies done in cooperation with academics, research institutes, corporations, and politicians from the European Union and 14 individual countries, the unipolar world order in which the United States dominates will have declined, as China will have surpassed the United States economically and regional powers will have grown in strength, although the United States will probably remain a "first among equals".[20]
  • Desalination will have greatly increased in use.[21]
  • Tidal power may provide 15% of the United States' electricity.[22]

Technology and medicine

  • 3D printing will have grown dramatically in usage, and even buildings and human organs will be printed.[23][24]
  • Healthcare will become largely automated, with machines replacing 80% of doctors.[25] In addition, new advances in medical technology will greatly improve human health, particularly nanobots, which will be implanted in the human body to augment the immune system. Ray Kurzweil argues that most diseases will have been wiped out by this time.[26]
  • Some researchers are aiming for the ability to regenerate human limbs to be achieved by this time.[27]
  • Self-driving vehicles will dominate the roads, and Elon Musk has projected that operating a non-self-driving vehicle on public roads may even be illegal by this time.[28][29]
  • Cars being built during this time, which will be smaller than the vehicles of previous decades, will all be plug-in electrics or hybrids.[21]
  • Hypersonic passenger airliners may be in use.[30]
  • Ships may be fully capable of running themselves and running on different types of fuel, will require less maintenance due to sensors and robots locating and repairing problems, while construction using advanced materials will make them lighter.[31]
  • Commercial delivery drones will be in widespread use, and the FAA has estimated that there may be as many as 30,000 of them regularly operating in American airspace by 2030.[32]
  • Advances in robotics will replace many jobs done by humans, and the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence will mean that white-collar jobs will also be increasingly automated.[33] In particular, Ray Kurzweil estimates that artificial intelligence will match human intelligence by this time, and that furthermore, humans will become hybrids with technology by 2030, due to human brains being able to connect with computers and being fed information.[34][35]
  • According to US Army General Robert W. Cone, robots may replace one quarter of US soldiers by 2030.[36]
  • A quantum computer trillions of times faster than a supercomputer may have been developed.[37]
  • DNA profiling technology will have advanced to the point where the equivalent of the entire Human Genome Project can be performed in seconds using special touch-sensitive gloves.[38]
  • Architectural advances will see taller and taller skyscrapers appear, including new "megatall" buildings.[39]
  • Integrated smart grids, or grids which will use sensors and monitoring devices to determine how much energy to direct to any particular building, based on its individual need, will be in widespread use throughout the developed world. Furthermore, energy production will become more decentralized due to widespread use of solar panels and fuel cells by individual businesses and residences, and these grids will be able redirect surplus electricity to other buildings in their area through power lines.[40]
  • Smart cities will be increasingly common, with over a trillion sensors installed worldwide.[41]

In fiction

See also: 21st century in fiction

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Underwater Cities Could Be A Reality By 2030 | HUH". Huhmagazine.co.uk. Archived from the original on April 25, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2016.
  3. ^ "Insane Ocean Spiral proposed as giant underwater city". CNN.com. January 3, 2015. Retrieved April 16, 2016.
  4. ^ Mark Tran. "New UN goals call for end to extreme poverty by 2030 | Global development". The Guardian. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  5. ^ "World Bank chief tells Stanford audience that ending extreme poverty is possible". Stanford University. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  6. ^ "How and Why Countries are Changing to Reach Universal Access in Rural Sanitation by 2030 | The Water Blog". Blogs.worldbank.org. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  7. ^ "IFLA Welcomes the UN 2030 Agenda". Ifla.org. August 4, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
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  10. ^ "UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 « International Literacy and Reading Blog". Blogs.ifla.org. August 10, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  11. ^ Chestney, Nina (January 30, 2012). "World lacks enough food, fuel as population soars: U.N." Reuters. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  12. ^ Pflanz, Mike (September 12, 2013). "Africa's population to double to 2.4 billion by 2050". The Telegraph.
  13. ^ "Most African countries achieve middle income status by 2030: Report". Ena.gov.et. Retrieved November 12, 2015.[permanent dead link]
  14. ^ "By 2030 two-thirds of global middle class will be in Asia-Pacific - EY - Global". EY. April 25, 2013. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  15. ^ "UN predicts huge expansion of wealth in developing world that will shift power". mcclatchydc. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  16. ^ Tom Gjelten (December 10, 2012). "The World In 2030: Asia Rises, The West Declines". NPR. Retrieved April 16, 2016.
  17. ^ "Megacities Of The Future". Forbes. November 6, 2007. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  18. ^ "Bright lights, big cities". The Economist. February 4, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  19. ^ "Almost all of the world's biggest cities will be in Asia and Africa by 2030 - Quartz". Qz.com. July 11, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  20. ^ "U.S. Intelligence Agencies See a Different World in 2030". Bloomberg.com. December 10, 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
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  22. ^ "Tapping into Wave and Tidal Ocean Power: 15% Water Power by 2030". Energy.gov.
  23. ^ Kuang, Cliff (August 18, 2009). "Food in 2030: Printed on Demand, Crafted to Your Diet". Fastcompany.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  24. ^ "Printable Houses and the Massive Wave of Opportunity it will bring to Our Future | Futurist Thomas Frey". Futuristspeaker.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  25. ^ "Technology will replace 80% of doctors: Vinod Khosla". Impact Lab. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  26. ^ Robbins, Gary (November 8, 2015). "Will scientists wipe out disease by 2030?". SanDiegoUnionTribune.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  27. ^ "Researchers Aim to Regenerate Human Limbs by 2030 | UConn Today". Today.uconn.edu. Retrieved November 14, 2015.
  28. ^ Stein, Scott. "Self-driving cars will rule the roads in 2030, says Internet of Things visionary". CNET. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
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  30. ^ Giordani, Adrian (September 15, 2015). "Future - The challenges of building a hypersonic airliner". BBC. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
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  39. ^ Life (December 1, 2014). "Tallest Buildings Of The Future". Business Insider. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
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