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So as most of us are probably aware predicting the future is a very difficult business to be involved in unanticipated

Events can always change what we thought would happen

But we're still free to make our best educated guesses with the means that are available to us

With that in mind here are the events that will most likely happen before the year

2050 for you to look forward to happening starting out just next year in

2018 two new countries may emerge in the form of New Caledonia and

Bougainville in the Pacific as they hold independence referendums from France and Papua

New Guinea respectively the FIFA World Cup will be held in Russia and NASA will deploy the James Webb Space

Telescope which will be significantly more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope in

2019 the United Kingdom will officially leave the European Union and the FIFA Women's World Cup will be held in France

The next year in 2020 will probably be quite eventful the Jeddah tower in Saudi Arabia

Is scheduled to be completed which will become the new tallest structure in the world at a full

Kilometer tall the Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo and Bigelow Aerospace

Plans on beginning construction of the first ever space hotel that will be able to accommodate six very wealthy guests at a time in

2021 India is expected to launch their first ever manned space mission and the following year in 2022

China plans on constructing their first very own Space Station in

addition the FIFA World Cup will be hosted once again in Qatar and the Winter Olympics will be hosted in Beijing China in

2023 the copyrights on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons will expire under current US copyright law but

2024 will be much more eventful the company SpaceX ostensibly has plans on launching their first

rocket carrying cargo to Mars this year in preparation of a future manned mission at the same time the

International Space Station will probably run out of funding in this year and be decommissioned as a result although this may be delayed until

2028

Finally this year the Fenmarn Belt Fixed Link will be completed which will provide a direct rail and highway link between

northern Germany and Copenhagen in Denmark in

2025 the giant Magellan telescope is scheduled to be completed it will be the largest

Observatory in the world at this point and have ten times the resolution power of the Hubble Space

Telescope in addition the UK will have completely phased out all of their coal power plants the next year in

2026 will possibly see SpaceX launch the first-ever manned mission to Mars if everything goes according

to their current schedule NASA

Also has plans to send a manned mission to visit an asteroid this year and construction on the Catalan Cathedral

Sagrada família will also be finally completed construction on this epic church began all the way back in

1882 which means that it will have taken

144 years to finally complete it this year in

2027 ten years from the current year if you are watching this in

2017 the SpaceX crew that launched the year previously will finally arrive at their

Destination meaning that we might witness the first-ever humans to set foot on Mars this year

Also the full autopsy report on Elvis Presley

Which was agreed to be sealed for 50 years following his death will finally be made publicly available this year in

2028 the Summer Olympics will be hosted in Los Angeles

California at near the end of the decade in

2029 the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles will be connected by a high-speed

Rail line that can transport people from one to the other in just two hours and 20 minutes

But when the 2030s finally arrive

We'll all be in for a very interesting

Decade at some point this decade NASA plans on launching their own manned mission to Mars

So if SpaceX failed to accomplish this in 2027 then NASA will probably land the first humans on the Red Planet

Sometime around now China further has plans on launching their own manned mission to the moon

Sometime during this decade as well and Russia has plans on landing their own cosmonauts on the moon in the year 2031

skipping ahead to

2036 however and we arrived at perhaps the most ambitious upcoming space project called Breakthrough Starshot

Without going into too much

Details the plan should be able to send tiny spacecraft to the Alpha Centauri star system

The nearest other star to Earth a planet inside the system

Proxima Centauri B is located inside of the habitable zone here and could possibly be home to some form of alien life

When the tiny ships are hopefully launched in

2036 they will arrive in the system 20 to 30 years later and can take detailed photographs of this mysterious planet in

2037 we may see the first summer where there won't be any ice in the Arctic and by

2040 France will have completely banned the sale of all gasoline and diesel vehicles in the country in

2042 the world population will have probably reached 9 billion people

while Americans of European

Ancestry will become a minority group inside of the United States for the first time this year

We'll also probably see the advent of the world's first trillionaire as well and in 2044 the works of JRR

Tolkien including the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit will enter into the public domain

2045 is the estimated year of the technological singularity

According to the famed futurist Ray Kurzweil meaning that this may be the year where artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence

Which could lead to enormous and unforeseen changes in society in

2048 the Antarctic Treaty will come up for review which could lead to

mining and oil industries opening up on the continent for the first time and finally we will arrive at the year of

2050 by this point half of the Amazon rainforest will likely be deforested about

70% of the world population will be living in cities about half of the global population may not have access to clean drinking water

The average global life expectancy may be 76 years old there will be

Super-smart artificial intelligences that will be even smarter than humans

Self-driving cars will likely be normal and a new new world of possibly hundreds or even

Thousands of people will be living and working on Mars there are things to be both afraid of and excited for in the future

So let's make sure to work as hard as we can in the present to make our

future the best one that we can possibly imagine

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