Timeline
2022
Content generation and sharing company Disco completes initial seed round
Taylor Swift re-releases "1989"
Tiktok reaches 1 billion MAU
2023
Solid state lithium-ion batteries produced
TSMC makes 5nm chip in Arizona fab
Lithium prices reach $80,000 per ton
2024
Sweden and Finland join NATO
US President reopens Arctic oil drilling
Crude oil futures drop below $50
2025
US Congress passes DEBT act (first of what later will be called UBI)
Amazon Abode announces 3D printed smart home project in Zzyzx
YouTube reaches 2 billion daily hours viewed
2026
Congress passes Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act
Pig heart transplant patient survives less than a year
US total healthcare expenditure passes $5 trillion
2027
Farmbots demonstrates mechanical organic pest control
Marijuana legalized in US
US agriculture exports tops $200 billion
2028
China announces creation of first AGI
US declares China's AGI not real
China growth slows to 3%
2029
US announces AGI "moonshot"
SpaceX launches crewed mission to Mars
US GDP passes $30 trillion
2030
US announces creation of first AGI
Waymo achieves level 4½ autonomous driving
US car ownership drops for first time
2031
US and China sign "Saigon Accords," agreement on the matter of Taiwan
US introduces central bank digital currency
China growth returns to 5%
2032
US patent #1117878865 issued: Method for price discrimination in cross-channel banked data systems
Meta announces name change to Metacoin
Disco reaches $1 trillion valuation
2033
Johns Hopkins University paper on cause of obesity is indecipherable, but proves true
Chinese modifications of human genome called "human experimentation"
Telemedicine accounts for 50% of US healthcare interactions
2034
Russia, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia form AGI-containment bloc
Origin of convincing "alien hoax" cannot be determined
Crude oil futures drop below $40
2035
Copyright law revamped to accommodate AI creations, automatic ecurrency royalties for remixed art
"Lego Taxidriver," top grossing US movie, created by teenager, released on Disco
Violent crime rates in US fall below 200 per 100,000
2036
Pink noise nervous disorder recognized
Coma patient communicates using Neuralink
US total healthcare expenditure passes $7 trillion
2037
Apple TV releases "Madmen Unlimited"
"Disco death" streaming overdose epidemic called "moral panic"
Arts and entertainment comprises 6% of US GDP
2038
"Uberwars" taxi jostling precipitates Congressional hearings
Los Angeles introduces "ticktime, tocktime" limiting movement at peak transit hours
US unemployment rate in transportation sector exceeds 40%
2039
Eliezer Yudkowsky declares first AGI created in 2035 in Switzerland
League of AI AG is founded
US trade is balanced (no deficit) with half of exports from services
2040
Construction begins on DEMO net-positive nuclear fusion generator
Denmark achieves "net 1%" energy emissions
US agricultural greenhouse gas emissions at 50% of 2020 levels
2041
CHECK act passed (later described as UBI) in US
US life expectancy at birth rises sharply to 84 years
2042
Apple announces Q chip "quantum" computer
Boeing nanotube "soaring dino" jetliner begins production
US GDP passes $50 trillion
2043
UCSD's GireiAI makes convincing case for practical space-elevator design
NASA launches Phaeon, "pac-man pellet" extra-solar mission
SpaceX valuation passes $1 trillion
2044
Philips COR scanner compared to Star Trek tricorder
China sells "moonweed," 淫羊藿 grown on the moon
US healthcare expenditures drops to 12% of GDP
2045
SynchronAI shares Nobel prize in physics with human experimental team for conceptualization (and later discovery) of Gianotti particle
Disco acquires Disney
Disco revenue surpasses $2 trillion
