https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=173.245.50.142&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T11:54:52ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1578:_Squirrelphone&diff=101930Talk:1578: Squirrelphone2015-09-16T17:39:31Z<p>173.245.50.142: </p>
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<div>Could it be a reference to this? http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/phd/cellularsquirrel/ {{unsigned ip|108.162.216.68}}<br />
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:I think it might be a reference to this: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/09/11/vampire-squirrel-caught-on-camera-for-the-first-time-ever/ ‘Vampire squirrel’ caught on camera for the first time ever – Washington Post]. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.234|141.101.104.234]] 07:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
:agreed: [https://www.michigandaily.com/section/statement/i-was-bitten-squirrel] [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.8|108.162.221.8]] 10:25, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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What about the old "Bananaphone" pun? {{unsigned ip|188.114.106.131}}<br />
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Sometimes I wonder if the joke is to make ExplainXKCD squirm. {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.150}}<br />
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^ Not really. Those like me who used SquirrelMail had a laugh. Mostly every XKCD joke is incomprehensible to people not familiar with the subject of the joke. {{unsigned ip|108.162.229.135}}<br />
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"a living squirrel being not an appropiate creature to mantain a phone call. "... well, duh. Everyone knows that a squid would make MUCH more sense! [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.161|108.162.250.161]] 05:16, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
::A puppy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0tiNwOpZ68 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.182|108.162.229.182]] 14:11, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
:I doubt this is supposed to be about SquirrelMail; it's much more likely to just be "Bananaphone" with a squirrel. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.193|108.162.237.193]] 05:33, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
: Maybe a _dead_ squirrel would work better. At least it wouldn't bite... [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 08:16, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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"chomp" is also a command on unixoid operating systems that removes characters which carry no information (leading, trailing white spaces, newlines etc) from strings. Seems like the squirrelphone removed every bit of non-information, essentially cutting the call to nothing. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.167|162.158.92.167]] 07:10, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Whoever put that [needs citation] in there deserves a medal XD [[User:Apbarratt|Apbarratt]] ([[User talk:Apbarratt|talk]]) 08:34, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Summary of POTS should be present tense - POTS is still active.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.179|108.162.215.179]] 16:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The tone played at the end is likely a howler tone, not fast busy.<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-hook_tone<br />
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Do we really need an explanation of every noise landline phones make? Only two really apply here, ringing and howling. Since even cellphones have ringtones, I don't think ringing would need to be explained in the detail that it is, just something like "These phones would make a series of rings on receiving a call (as shown in the first panel) and would automatically stop ringing and answer when picked up."<br />
I must admit I'm young enough that my first impulse for a squirrelphone beeping was "Oh, it must be one of those wireless home phone recievers and it's low on battery." I suppose squirrelphones must still be wired, though, though it doesn't look like it. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.142|173.245.50.142]] 17:39, 16 September 2015 (UTC)</div>173.245.50.142https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1560:_Bubblegum&diff=99156Talk:1560: Bubblegum2015-08-05T19:08:26Z<p>173.245.50.142: </p>
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<div>I believe the title text refers to the story about Calvin Coolidge about making a bet to not say 3 words.[[User:Blawho|Blawho]] ([[User talk:Blawho|talk]]) 04:51, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Duke Nukem says: "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum...", not the other way around. Don't know if this is worth mentioning. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 07:24, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know the movie quote. With this info in mind, I now think that panel 2 shows that Cueball is perhaps not making friends, so he decides to just go for the chewing gum option?? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.36|141.101.99.36]] 08:40, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
I added that the dénouement was similar to something the naïve and childish Beret Guy would do, that okay? [[User:MadHaighaHatta|Completely sane (And not Anglo-Saxon)]] ([[User talk:MadHaighaHatta|talk]]) 11:27, 5 August 2015 (UTC) <br />
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Title text only 16 words? ''I(1) came(2) here(3) to(4) chew(5) bubblegum(6) and(7) say(8) no(9) more(10) than(11) eighteen(12) words(13) ... and(14) I'm(15) all(16) out(17) of(18)'' --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.98|162.158.93.98]] 10:26, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
: Title text 18 words, movie quote 16 words. Unless Randall takes the stuff in the movie quote as "bubble gum" where Randall's own text uses "bubblegum." Which is entirely possible, but weird. But then, what's not to like about "weird?" [[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 10:41, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
:: sorry, no native english - why is "I'm" counted as one word as it is "I am" which I would count as two words? Or is "don't" and "can't" also one word? -- [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.17|162.158.92.17]] 13:09, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
:::"don't" and "can't" are both also considered one word. In English, a contraction functions as one word, even though it combines multiple words. Don't bother asking why... the rules of English don't necessarily make sense. :-) [[User:Suspender guy|Suspender guy]] ([[User talk:Suspender guy|talk]]) 16:37, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
::::This is absolutely true. Basically, if it's not separated by spaces, it's one word, be there an apostrophe, hyphen or whatever. But the thing about English is not only do the rules not necessarily make sense, they don't necessarily exist, either, or if they do not everyone agrees on them, such as how many spaces to put after a period at the end of a sentence (used to be universally two, now that's quite rare); and whether to put punctuation inside or outside of quotation marks (I usually put it outside unless it's part of the quote, but that style is mainly restricted to computer manuals that are trying to avoid you typing in the sentence-ending period.) I still think English is harder to learn than Japanese (which is what most native English speakers cite as "a difficult-to-learn language") and I grew up speaking English.[[User:PsyMar|PsyMar]] ([[User talk:PsyMar|talk]]) 17:01, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The description of the hovertext mentions "out of words" and "out of both"; might want to include the original, "out of bubblegum". Also, the deliberate truncation implies "out of time", which could relate to the possibility of it being a tribute to Roddy Piper.--[[User:Beth|Beth]] ([[User talk:Beth|talk]]) 12:44, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I don't wanna change Randall's work - I just want to mention that ''I came here to chew bubblegum and say only sixteen words ... and I'm all out of'' would be more close to proposed origin where a) 16 words [with I'm= 1] and b) only positive descriptions used. -- [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.17|162.158.92.17]] 13:16, 5 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I don't see why it's so strange that he didn't use the same number of words. He wrote the sentence in a way that he liked, counted the words he used, then added one. There's no need to overthink this.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.142|173.245.50.142]] 19:08, 5 August 2015 (UTC)</div>173.245.50.142https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=887:_Future_Timeline&diff=84109887: Future Timeline2015-02-05T02:15:50Z<p>173.245.50.142: /* The predictions */ - added explanation to 2078</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 887<br />
| date = April 18, 2011<br />
| title = Future Timeline<br />
| before = [[#Explanation|↓ Skip to explanation ↓]]<br />
| image = future timeline.png<br />
| titletext = Not shown: the approximately 30,000 identical, vaguely hysterical articles titled "WHITE PEOPLE IN [THE US/BRITAIN] TO BECOME MINORITY BY [YEAR]!", which came up for basically any year I put in.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Predictions table needs filling out.}}<br />
This comic uses the same strategy as comic [[715: Numbers]], in which [[Randall]] uses Google to search for phrases and then charts the results. This one is charted as a timeline, whereas 715 was charted as line graphs.<br />
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"2101 - War Was Beginning" is a reference to the opening narration of video game ''Zero Wing''; the same narration is famous for the internet meme "{{w|All your base are belong to us}}". As there are not any other out and out references in the comic, and the rest are actually results that you can find using Randall's methods (though "War Was Beginning" most likely came up when he googled 2101 as well).<br />
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Certain events in this comic, e.g. "Social Security stops running surplus", are repeated multiple times. Also, certain bizarre events, like "Apocalypse occurs", or "Flying cars reach market", happen before rather plausible things, like "HTML 5 Finished". Certain events, like "Japan is a robot-only country" or "Gillette introduces 14-blade razor" may be related to the recurring theme [[605: Extrapolating]].<br />
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The title text is born of a recurring "white people panic" situation; scaremongers will predict white minority in the very near future in order to get the panicked racist people to pay attention to them (without actually using valid or accepted scientific measurements to back up these claims- panicked racist people don't exactly fact-check very much), while level-headed sociologists will usually come up with more distant, if not nonexistent, dates from their extrapolations.<br />
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This comic has similar features to [[1413: Suddenly Popular]], [[1093: Forget]], and [[891: Movie Ages]].<br />
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===Accuracy===<br />
====2012-2014====<br />
The only predictions for this period that came true are that the world population has surpassed 7 billion and that US combat troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan. Canada formally withdrew from the Kyoto protocol in December 2011, and its emissions in 2012 were 18% ''above'' 1990 levels (though its population had grown 26% and its GDP had grown 67% in that period). Sadly, homelessness is still a problem in Massachusetts. The prediction about GNU/Linux Operating Systems remains false; although Android (which is built on the Linux kernel) constitutes nearly 50% of the mobile OS market, it is not GNU/Linux, which remains an extreme minority on consumer devices. And so far as we're aware, the apocalypse is yet to occur.<br />
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====2015-2016====<br />
{{w|New Horizons}} is to make its closest approach to Pluto in July of 2015.<ref>http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20140715.php</ref> It was never intended to ''land'' on Pluto.<br />
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{{w|Android OS}}' market share was already 84.4% as of the third quarter of 2014, showing that both estimates were overly conservative.<ref>http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp</ref> {{w|Windows Phone}} continued to have less than 30% of {{w|iOS}}' market share.<br />
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==The predictions==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Year<br />
! Prediction<br />
! Further Details<br />
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| rowspan="4"| 2012<br />
| World population<br />
| Ever since the advent of modern medicine and the more efficient agricultural processes developed suit the Industrial Revolution, the human population had been growing at an unprecedented rate. This has caused some people to worry about overpopulation, which would cause a scarcity of resources and overcrowding, and propose various solutions, most of which involve some form of eugenics. 7 billion is a landmark number because it is a multiple of 1 billion.<br />
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| Flying cars<br />
| For decades, flying cars have been a staple of futuristic sci-fi and technological predictions. So far none of these predictions, which to tend to hover around 5–10 years from whatever the current date is, have come true.<br />
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| Canada cuts greenhouse emissions<br />
| Currently, the Earth is experiencing an unprecedented period of warming we call global warming, caused in part by greenhouse emissions, which are gases that help trap heat in the atmosphere. Countries have repeatedly gotten together and promised to stop emitting greenhouse gases, but so far they have failed to meet their targets. Canada withdrew<br />
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| Apocalypse occurs<br />
| The end of a cycle of the Mayan calendar on December 22, 2012 has been used in popular culture as a basis for predicting the end of the world. Amongst other things, this included the film '2012'. Some people took this rather more seriously, and actually believed that the world would end on this date. It didn't.<br />
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| rowspan="4"| 2013<br />
| National debt paid off<br />
| For years, the subject of national debt has been a political point of contention, with the Republicans typically favoring paying it all off, and the Democrats more willing to spend to pull the country out of recessions in the economy. Clinton, a Democrat, at one point proposed [http://money.cnn.com/1999/06/28/economy/clinton/ paying off the debt by 2015].<br />
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| Microchipping Americans<br />
| Microchips are small computer chips, typically embedded in pets in case they get lost, that contain information about the pet. Some, more irrational, people worry about the government microchipping everyone in an effort to monitor their activities.<br />
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| Homelessness ended in MA<br />
| In 2008, the Commission To End Homelessness in Massachusetts, under Governor Deval Patrick, proposed a plan to all but eliminate homelessness over the next five years (hence the 2013 end-date on the comic).<br />
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| Health care reform law repealed<br />
| A health care reform law, popularly known as Obamacare, was signed into law in 2010. Ever since, many Republicans have tried (in vain) to repeal it, disliking the idea that government should provide and require healthcare.<br />
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| rowspan="2"| 2014<br />
| US leaves Afghanistan<br />
| After the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan, which at the time allegedly hosted the headquarters of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization behind the attacks. The war has gone on since then, with the public growing increasingly tired of it. Public support now favors a withdrawal, but for military and logistical reasons, the government cannot simply move all the troops currently in Afghanistan home right now. For one, that would cause immediate chaos in the country. Therefore, the government instead promises to eventually withdraw all troops, planning on doing so by the end of 2014.<br />
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| GNU/Linux dominant OS<br />
| An operating system, or OS, is the software that forms the structure in which applications on you computer function. Some typical OSs include Mac OSX, Windows 8, and Linux. The first two of those three are commercial products, sold as a copy by a company. The last is an open-source OS, one that anyone can download and modify free. Typically, open-source software is used by a small number of socially conscious people. It is therefore unrealistic to predict that it will become mainstream in the near future.<br />
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| rowspan="3"| 2015<br />
| New Horizon reaches Pluto<br />
| The New Horizon spacecraft is a U.S. space mission designed to go to Pluto and take photographs, collect samples, etc. It is scheduled to reach Pluto in 2015.<br />
|-<br />
| Healthcare law causes hyperinflation<br />
| The National Inflation Association warns that the [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/healthcare-bill-to-cause-us-hyperinflation-by-2015-88711032.html Healthcare Bill to Cause U.S. Hyperinflation By 2015]<br />
|-<br />
| Millennium development goals achieved<br />
| {{w|Millennium Development Goals}}<br />
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| rowspan="3"| 2016<br />
| Baby boomers begin turning 65<br />
| {{w|Baby boomers}} are individuals conceived in the years following World War Two, roughly defined as those born from 1946-1959. This isn't so much a prediction as basic math; if you were born in 1946, you turned 65 in 2011.<br />
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| Android takes 38%/45% of market share<br />
| {{w|Android (operating system|Android}} is a popular operating system for smartphones and tablets, created by Google. Market share is the percentage of all devices that use the product, in this case the Android operating system. These entries together are humorous because they cannot both happen at the same time.<br />
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| Windows phone overtakes iOS<br />
| {{w|iOS}} is the operating system used by Apple iPhones. At the time of the comic, Apple's mobile OS is much more popular than Microsoft's. The article Randall found predicts that the tables will turn.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="5"| 2017<br />
| China completes lunar mission<br />
| The {{w|Chinese space program}} has plans for extraterrestrial exploration, including a manned mission to the moon.<br />
|-<br />
| Social Security stops running surplus<br />
| The first of many predictions about the United States {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}} trust fund program, all predicting its decline due to a variety of factors.<br />
|-<br />
| US budget balanced<br />
| The {{w|United States federal budget}} outlines how much the US government spends on what in a given fiscal year. The budget is not required to be balanced, and so often more money is spent than is earned in revenue, causing the national debt to rise.<br />
|-<br />
| Newspapers become obsolete and die out<br />
| The increasing popularity of internet media and mobile devices has caused a steady decline in the popularity of print media.<br />
|-<br />
| Cosmetic surgery doubles<br />
| {{w|Cosmetic Surgery}}<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2018<br />
| Social Security stops running surplus<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
|-<br />
| Jesus returns to Earth<br />
| A number of Christians have attempted to predict the return of Christ (a.k.a. the second coming, the rapture) using clues from The Bible, even though the Bible itself says that "no man can know the date". Several predicted dates have come and gone.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2019<br />
| Social Security stops running surplus<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
|-<br />
| Every baby has genes mapped at birth<br />
| {{w|Gene Mapping}}<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2020<br />
| Solar power becomes cheaper than fossil fuels<br />
| Scientists estimate that more than half of the {{w|fossil fuels}} in existance have already been found and that fossil fuel production will begin to decline due to the scarcity, causing prices to increase. At the same time, improvements in {{w|Solar Power|solar technology}} are causing the prices for solar energy to steadily decrease.<br />
|-<br />
| Keyboards and mice become obsolete<br />
| {{w|Computer input device}} are beginning to adopt other methods of input, such as voice commands, touch screens, and eye tracking. While the use of touch screens in particular is gaining widespread use, as of 2014 none has come close to making keyboards and mice obsolete. None of them allows text input as fast as a keyboard, and none is suitable for writing program code.<br />
|-<br />
| New Tappan Zee bridge constructed<br />
| A {{w|Tappan_Zee_Bridge#Replacement_bridge|replacement bridge}} was anounced in 2008 and is expected to be completed in 2018.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="4"| 2021<br />
| US debt reaches 97% of GDP<br />
| {{w|US Debt}}<br />
|-<br />
| US unemployment falls to 2.8%<br />
| {{w|Unemployment in the United States}}<br />
|-<br />
| Restored caliphate unifies Middle East<br />
| A {{w|caliphate}} is a form of {{w|Islam|Islamic}} political-religious leadership, centred around a Caliph, or successor to the prophet {{w|Muhammad}}.<br />
|-<br />
| Lake Mead evaporates<br />
| Formed by the {{w|Hoover Dam}} on the {{w|Colorado River}}, {{w|Lake Mead}} is the largest reservoir in the United States (measured by maximum capacity). It hasn't reached its capacity since 1983, due to drought and increased demand for water. This could be linked to {{w|global warming}}.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2022<br />
| Kilimanjaro snow-free<br />
| At 5,895 metres, {{w|Kilimanjaro}} is the highest mountain in {{w|Africa}}, and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Around 85% of its ice cover disappeared between 1912 and 2011, and it continues to recede.<br />
|-<br />
| HTML 5 finished<br />
| {{w|HTML 5}}<br />
|-<br />
| Newspapers become obsolete and die out<br />
| This is the second time this prediction has appeared.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2023<br />
| Jesus returns to Earth (again)<br />
| A number of Christians have attempted to predict the return of Christ (a.k.a. the second coming, the rapture) using clues from The Bible, even though the Bible itself says that "no man can know the date". Several predicted dates have come and gone.<br />
|-<br />
| US debt passes 100% of GDP<br />
| {{w|US Debt}}<br />
|-<br />
| All unprotected ancient forests gone from Pacific Northwest<br />
| Likely due to a combination of wildfire and {{w|deforestation}}<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="5"| 2024<br />
| Atlantis begins to reappear<br />
| {{w|Atlantis}} is the name of a fictional island, which is supposed to have been lost beneath the sea.<br />
|-<br />
| Orangutans extinct in wild<br />
| {{w|Orangutan|Orangutans}} are a species of great ape, currently classed as an {{w|endangered species}}, and found only in the {{w|Rainforest|rainforests}} of {{w|Borneo}} and {{w|Sumatra}}.<br />
|-<br />
| China lands men and women on the moon<br />
| The {{w|Chinese space program}} has plans for extraterrestrial exploration, including a manned mission to the moon.<br />
|-<br />
| NASA sets up permanent moon base<br />
| There is a a lot of hype recently about finally returning to the moon, vis-a-vis Orion.<br />
|-<br />
| Female professionals pass males in pay<br />
| There are two possible explanations for this entry: Either it's fear-mongering from misogynists or, more probably, an erroneous extrapolation from the current rate at which female incomes are catching up to male incomes.<br />
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| rowspan="4"| 2025<br />
| World population reaches 8 billion<br />
| Given current rates, it seems unlikely it will take this long to hit 8 billion, but advances in birth control options and especially their availability in developing nations may slow the current rate considerably.<br />
|-<br />
| Two billion people face water shortages<br />
| http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/28-01-2008/103693-water_crisis-0/<br />
|-<br />
| 62 MPG cars introduced<br />
| Miles per gallon. 62 MPG is a very good mileage rate at today's standard.<br />
|-<br />
| US power fades<br />
| http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-us-power-will-fade-by-2025/<br />
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| rowspan="5"| 2026<br />
| Atlantis emerges completely<br />
| {{w|Atlantis}} is the name of a fictional island, which is supposed to have been lost beneath the sea. It seems that it has taken 2 years for it to emerge completely.<br />
|-<br />
| Rock Bands die out<br />
| https://bestbands.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/rock-bands-to-die-out-by-2026/<br />
|-<br />
| US debt paid off<br />
| {{w|US Debt}}<br />
|-<br />
| Car accidents cease<br />
| Presumably, cars will be fully automated and able to pilot themselves at this point and will have fail-safes that prevent collisions currently attributed to user error. Car accidents will always be possible, however, due to mechanical and electrical failures.<br />
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| West coast falls into ocean<br />
| Most likely due to {{w|San_Andreas_Fault#The_next_.22Big_One.22|a significant seismic event}}<br />
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| rowspan="3"| 2027<br />
| Japan introduces new fastest Maglev train<br />
| Japan's railway systems are famous for their "bullet trains", or {{w|Shinkansen}}.<br />
|-<br />
| Lyndon Larouche-planned Mars colony is established<br />
| http://totse.mattfast1.com/en/technology/space_astronomy_nasa/moonmars.html<br />
|-<br />
| Social Security stops running surplus<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="4"| 2028<br />
| Tobacco outlawed<br />
| Tobacco products (cigarettes and chewing tobacco) have become more and more taboo in modern culture, with most public places and private businesses forbidding their use indoors and near places children congregate.<br />
|-<br />
| 40% of coral reefs gone<br />
| Many factors have been attributed to the decline of {{w|Coral_reef#Threats|coral reefs}}, including mining, over fishing, and rising ocean tempteratures.<br />
|-<br />
| US debt paid off<br />
| {{w|US Debt}} nytimes.com It’s 2026, and the Debt Is Due By N. GREGORY MANKIW<br />
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| Social Security stops running surplus<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
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| rowspan="4"| 2029<br />
| Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
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| Computers pass the Turing test<br />
| Computers already clear the Turing Test about 30% of the time. Also, it is no coincidence that 2029 is the timeline for Terminator Movies.<br />
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| Aging reversed<br />
| Manhattan Beach Project to reverse aging by 2029<br />
|-<br />
| Wikipedia reaches 30 Million articles<br />
| As of 00:00, 5 January 2015 (UTC), Wikipedia has over 34 million total articles, if all languages are included. Randall may have meant the English language Wikipedia, which has only 4.686 million articles, as of 00:00, 5 January 2015 (UTC).<br />
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| rowspan="3"| 2030<br />
| Half of Amazon rain forest lost to logging<br />
| WWF press release - [http://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/climate-change-speeds-up-amazon-s-destruction-says-wwf Climate Change Speeds Up Amazon’s Destruction] referring to a report on the [http://assets.panda.org/downloads/amazonas_eng_04_12b_web.pdf Amazon's vicious cycles] (PDF)<br />
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| Cancer deaths double from 2008 levels<br />
| From the [http://www.cancer.org/myacs/newengland/global-cancer-burden-to-double-by-2030 Global Cancer Burden to Nearly Double by 2030] article about the article from page 37 of [http://www.cancer.org/research/cancerfactsfigures/globalcancerfactsfigures/global-facts-figures-2nd-ed Global Cancer Facts & Figures 2nd edition].<br />
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| Arctic ice-free in summer<br />
| http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091015-arctic-ice-free-gone-video-ap.html<br />
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| rowspan="3"| 2031<br />
| Computers controlled by thought<br />
| http://www.gizmag.com/future-mobile-technology/17554/<br />
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| Realtors replaced by technology<br />
| http://agbeat.com/editorials/will-realtors-be-replaced-by-technology-by-the-year-2031/<br />
|-<br />
| Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
| http://crfb.org/blogs/cbo-95-percent-confident-social-security-trust-fund-runs-out-25-years<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2032<br />
| "Big One" hits San Francisco<br />
| http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Quake-scientists-predict-Big-One-likely-by-2032-2653745.php {{w|San Franscisco}} is located on the {{w|San Andreas Fault}}, which is predicted to produce a magnitude 7+ earthquake in the 'near future'. This event is referred to as {{w|San_Andreas_Fault#The_next_.22Big_One.22|"The Big One"}}.<br />
|-<br />
| US elects first married lesbian President<br />
| http://4chandata.org/g/In-what-major-ways-do-you-think-the-world-of-2032-will-be-different-from-that-of-today-a20155<br />
|-<br />
| Entire world converted to Christianity<br />
| http://www.goddiscussion.com/38920/christian-domininionsts-to-take-over-the-world-by-2032/<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2033<br />
| Kilimanjaro ice disappears<br />
| http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/02/idUSL2210825<br />
|-<br />
| India becomes superpower<br />
| https://www.facebook.com/pages/India-A-SuperPower-by-2033/151177191568098 ?<br />
|-<br />
| Europe reaches Mars<br />
| http://www.spacedaily.com/news/esa-general-03zb.html<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2034<br />
| US diabetes cases double, treatment costs triple<br />
| [http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/27/us-diabetes-usa-costs-idUSTRE5AQ0C220091127 U.S. diabetes cases to double, costs triple by 2034]<br />
|-<br />
| US builds autonomous robot army<br />
| [http://www.aos-inc.com/index.php/medialias/press-releases?id=112 Unmanned Systems] article, about the [http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA522247 2009-2034 Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap] publication ([http://www.amazon.com/2009-Unmanned-Integrated-Aircraft-Technologies-ebook/dp/B0047743A0 details at Amazon])<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2035<br />
| 80% of America's energy comes from renewable sources<br />
| From fact sheet on Obama's [http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/fact-sheet-state-union-president-obamas-plan-win-future State of the Union]<br />
|-<br />
| Himalayan glaciers down 80% in size<br />
| From an IPCC report on [https://web.archive.org/web/20100116132657/http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch10s10-6-2.html The Himalayan glaciers] that has been analysed in quite some depth. See for example detailed article on an [http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2010/02/anatomy-of-ipccs-himalayan-glacier-year-2035-mess/ anatomy of IPCC’s mistake].<br />
|-<br />
| Arctic sea lane opens<br />
| [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/730ef8fe-27e1-11e0-8abc-00144feab49a.html#axzz3OBgEHYNY Arctic sea lane could open by 2035]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2036<br />
| 80% of US has access to high-speed rail<br />
| [http://www.wnyc.org/story/284946-obama-80-percent-of-americans-should-have-access-to-high-speed-rail-by-2036/ Obama: 80 Percent of Americans Should Have Access to High Speed Rail By 2036]<br />
|-<br />
| Asteroid Apophis misses/hits Earth<br />
| http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/ http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/ 99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a probability of up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2037<br />
| Arctic ice-free in September<br />
| {{w|Arctic sea ice decline}}<br />
|-<br />
| Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2038<br />
| 32-bit timestamps roll over, causing Y2K-level chaos<br />
| 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038, the value of time_t rolls over, that is it will return to zero. time_t is the computing standard measurement of time, it is a count of the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. time_t us used by most computer systems to store date and time information. It is recommended that new software should convert to a 64 bit time_t, indeed most operating systems designed to run on 64-bit hardware already use signed 64-bit time_t integers. This would give an epoch of 15:30:08 UTC on 4 December 292,277,026,596 (292 billion years away). Of course, legacy systems may not be upgradable so action taken now should prevent this becoming a problem closer to 2038...<br />
|-<br />
| "Big One" hits California<br />
| [http://www.presstelegram.com/technology/20080414/the-big-one-likely-to-hit-by-2038 `The big one' likely to hit by 2038]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2039<br />
| US population hits 400 Million<br />
| [http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2008/us400million.aspx U.S. Population Projected to Hit 400 Million in 2039]<br />
|-<br />
| Severe heat waves become commonplace<br />
| [http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/july/extreme-heat-study-070810.html Heat waves and extremely high temperatures could be commonplace in the U.S. by 2039, Stanford study finds]<br />
|-<br />
| Scientology becomes majority religion in US<br />
| [http://home.snafu.de/tilman/2039.html Essay: Scientology in the year 2039]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2040<br />
| Arctic summers ice-free<br />
| [http://www.livescience.com/9419-arctic-summer-ice-free-2040.html Arctic Summer Could be Ice-Free by 2040]<br />
|-<br />
| Nanotechnology makes humans immortal<br />
| [http://www.computerworld.com/article/2528330/app-development/nanotech-could-make-humans-immortal-by-2040--futurist-says.html Nanotech could make humans immortal by 2040, futurist says]<br />
|-<br />
| 2041<br />
| Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2043<br />
| World population passes 9 Billion<br />
| {{w|Population growth}}<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2044<br />
| Mankind genetically engineered to be happy<br />
| Premise of the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1363468/ Zenith] - further details are in the [http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/esearch/e3i25130cd57f1590bda4527c098ac85b01 film review for Zenith]<br />
|-<br />
| Childhood obesity reaches 100%<br />
| [http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11414 100-Percent Childhood Obesity Predicted by 2044]<br />
|-<br />
| 2045<br />
| Humans and machines merge<br />
| Ray Kurzweil predicts of 'singularity' which will lead to race of super intelligent beings<br />
|-<br />
| 2046<br />
| World's natural resources depleted<br />
| [http://raphaelvanlaer.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/peak-uncertainty-when-will-we-run-out-of-fossil-fuels/ Peak uncertainty, when will we run out of fossil fuels?]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2047<br />
| World ruled by banks and corporations<br />
| [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Schlock-2047-RM-Krakoff-ebook/dp/B0039IT37Q Future Schlock] - the story of a world turned upside down in 2047<br />
|-<br />
| Tobacco industry fails<br />
| [http://www.news.wisc.edu/16857 Experts: Big Tobacco dead by 2047, possibly sooner]<br />
|-<br />
| US begins using autonomous attack drones<br />
| [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/22/us-air-force-drones-pilots-afghanistan US Air Force prepares drones to end era of fighter pilots]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2048<br />
| Salt-water fish extinct from overfishing<br />
| WWF report on [http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/problems/problems_fishing/ Unsustainable fishing]<br />
|-<br />
| Unisex bathing suits cover body from shoulder to ankle<br />
| [http://future.wikia.com/wiki/RyansWorld:_Bathing_Suits_of_the_Future RyansWorld: Bathing Suits of the Future]<br />
|-<br />
| Entire US population overweight<br />
| Article archive - [https://web.archive.org/web/20090321075605/http://thestatsblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/scientists-say-thin-people-face-extinction-in-united-states-everyone-will-be-overweight-by-2048-%E2%80%93-and-less-smart Scientists Say Thin People Face Extinction in United States: Everyone Will Be Overweight by 2048 – And Less Smart]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2049<br />
| $1.000 computer exceeds computational ability of humanity<br />
| [http://www.americanbar.org/content/newsletter/publications/technology_e_report_home/2007_may_technotes.html TechNotes: Trends in Technology]<br />
|-<br />
| Singularity occurs<br />
| [http://www.prismdecision.com/the-singularity-is-near The Singularity Is Near]<br />
|-<br />
| Fishing industry collapses<br />
| This tends to happen when your food-stock is extinct - see WWF report on [http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/problems/problems_fishing/ Unsustainable fishing]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="5"| 2050<br />
| 80% of Earth's population lives in urban centers<br />
| [http://infochangeindia.org/population/books-a-reports/80-of-world-population-will-soon-be-in-urban-areas.html 80% of world population will soon be in urban areas]<br />
|-<br />
| China controls space<br />
| [https://books.google.com/books?id=op851Uf99LQC&dq=China+controls+space+2050&source=gbs_navlinks_s]<br />
|-<br />
| Sex with robots possible<br />
| [http://www.livescience.com/1951-forecast-sex-marriage-robots-2050.html Forecast: Sex and Marriage with Robots by 2050]<br />
|-<br />
| Cars banned from European cities<br />
| [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8411336/EU-to-ban-cars-from-cities-by-2050.html EU to ban cars from cities by 2050]<br />
|-<br />
| One million species extinct from climate change<br />
| [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0107_040107_extinction.html By 2050 Warming to Doom Million Species, Study Says]<br />
|-<br />
| 2051<br />
| Atmosphere escapes into space<br />
| [http://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-outdoor-photos/255705-have-you-ever-seen-fallstreak-hole.html conspiracy theory] relating to {{w|Fallstreak hole}} or hole punch clouds.<br />
|-<br />
| 2052<br />
| Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security spending exceed total US revenue<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2053<br />
| US budget balanced<br />
| [http://crfb.org/blogs/omb-releases-long-term-projections-fy2015-budget-proposal OMB releases long-term projections for the FY2015 budget proposal]<br />
|-<br />
| Majority of Americans in prison<br />
| [http://articles.philly.com/1992-06-14/news/26032105_1_prison-officials-prison-time-prison-commissioners 'Beyond Bricks And Bars' As Jails Overflow, The Lock-'em-up Credo Is Drawing Unlikely Criticism - From Prison Officials Themselves]<br />
|-<br />
| Cars driven by dogs<br />
| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk This has already occured!]<br />
|-<br />
| 2054<br />
| Hunger becomes unimaginable global problem<br />
| [http://www.albionmonitor.com/0403a/earth2054.html Hunger Could Be 'Unimaginable' Global Problem By 2054]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2055<br />
| Atmospheric CO2 doubled<br />
| [http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/flash_intro.php Carbon Mitigation Initiative: Stabilization Wedges]<br />
|-<br />
| Oil runs out<br />
| [http://raphaelvanlaer.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/peak-uncertainty-when-will-we-run-out-of-fossil-fuels/ Peak uncertainty, when will we run out of fossil fuels?]<br />
|-<br />
| Copper, tin, lead, gold, and nickel all exhausted<br />
| [http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/environment/5-valuable-metals-that-could-vanish-by-2055 5 Valuable Metals That Could Vanish by 2055]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2056<br />
| RFID-tagged driverless cars<br />
| [http://www.zdnet.com/article/rfid-tagged-driverless-cars-on-roads-by-2056/ RFID-tagged driverless cars on roads by 2056]<br />
|-<br />
| Robots given same rights as humans<br />
| [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/robots-given-same-rights-humans-2056 Robots Given Same Rights As Humans By 2056]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2057<br />
| 150 Japanese settlers on Mars<br />
| [http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9011051292/will-japan-colonize-mars Will Japan colonize Mars?]<br />
|-<br />
| Colorado River runs dry<br />
| [http://news.agu.org/press-release/colorado-river-reservoirs-could-bottom-out-from-warming-business-as-usual/ Colorado River Reservoirs Could Bottom Out From Warming]<br />
|-<br />
| 2058<br />
| Smoking ends in New Zealand<br />
| [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10698966 Smoking to die out in NZ by 2058]<br />
|-<br />
| 2059<br />
| Humans have domesticated robots<br />
| [http://diehardempiricist.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/6-may-2011-virtual-necking-demography.html Virtual necking, demography, and robots]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="4"| 2060<br />
| Human race lives in peace<br />
| [http://www.arasfoundation.org/vision.html ARAS vision/mission]<br />
|-<br />
| Extreme droughts across much of Earth<br />
| [http://wdas.cosmosmagazine.com/news/extreme-drought-across-most-earth-30-years/ Extreme drought across most of Earth by 2060]<br />
|-<br />
| Global temperature rise reaches 4 °C<br />
| {{w|Avoiding dangerous climate change}}<br />
|-<br />
| Oil runs out again<br />
| [http://business.financialpost.com/2011/04/01/oil-may-run-out-by-2060-hsbc/?__lsa=98a7-5c61 Oil may run out by 2060: HSBC]<br />
|-<br />
| 2061<br />
| Halley's comet returns<br />
| Halley's comet returns to the inner solar system (the vicinity of earth and the sun) every 75.3 years. The last time it was near earth was in 1985-1986. When it next returns, its closest approach to the sun will occur on 28 July 2061.<ref name=horizons>[http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi Donald K. Yeomans. "Horizon Online Ephemeris System". California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 8 September 2006.]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2062<br />
| Uganda hosts World Cup<br />
| [http://shillingscents.blogspot.co.nz/2010/07/uganda-to-host-world-cup-in-2062.html Uganda to host world cup in 2062]<br />
|-<br />
| The Jetsons<br />
| {{w|The Jetsons}} was an animated science fiction sitcom that first aired in 1962. The show took place in the year 2062.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="4"| 2063<br />
| First human clones reach adulthood<br />
| [http://au.ign.com/articles/2004/04/28/the-fall-last-days-of-gaia-diary-2 The Fall - Last Days of Gaia Diary #2]<br />
|-<br />
| Population of Moon reaches 100,000<br />
| Reading Eagle newspaper article from July 17, 1963 - [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19630717&id=PhgrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B50FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4055,6599008 Moon Population of 100,000 Is Predicted for 2063] and [http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2008/3/14/air-force-predictions-for-2063-1963.html Air Force Predictions for 2063 (1963)]<br />
|-<br />
| Population of Mars reaches 10,000<br />
| [http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2008/3/14/air-force-predictions-for-2063-1963.html Air Force Predictions for 2063 (1963)]<br />
|-<br />
| Spacecraft exceed speed of light<br />
| Physics as currently understood states that it is impossible to exceed the speed of light. A monumental shift in our physics would have had to have occurred for this to come true. This is a reference to the 8th Star Trek feature Film: "Star Trek: First Contact" where Zefram Cochrane performs the first human Warp Flight on April 5, 2063.<br />
|-<br />
| 2064<br />
| Clean Air Act finishes reducing haze in national parks to natural levels<br />
| [http://www.cleanhouston.org/air/features/hazyfuture.htm State plan guarantees a hazy future for Texas’ wilderness areas]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2065<br />
| Last coral reefs die out<br />
| From an [http://www.edgeofexistence.org/coral_reef_conservation/coral_reef_video.php article about a video called Reefs on the Edge] set in 2065 where a 15-year-old girl tells her grandfather's stories of corel reefs, and their demise.<br />
|-<br />
| Chernobyl cleanup complete<br />
| [http://rt.com/politics/chernobyl-clean-in-55-years-time/ Chernobyl clean in 55 years time?]<br />
|-<br />
| 2066<br />
| Cyprus achieves its goal<br />
| This is from some [http://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus33608-110.html#p665612 forum posts on the decendants of Cypriots] that lends support to the autonomy of Cyprus from Greek or Turkey.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2067<br />
| Americans live in domed cities and watch 3D TV<br />
| The article at [http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/ncm/index.php/2013/11/15/artifact-of-the-month-slide-rule-1916/ Artifact of the Month: Slide rule, 1916] includes information from the International Slide Rule Museum that "in 1967, Keuffel & Esser Co. commissioned a study of the future, predicting that Americans in 2067 would live in domed cities and watch 3D television."<br />
|-<br />
| Redheads go extinct<br />
| [http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/redhead-extinction.htm Are redheads going extinct?]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2068<br />
| Ozone hole over Antarctic finishes recovering<br />
| [http://www.theozonehole.com/recovery.htm NASA Study Finds Clock Ticking Slower On Ozone Hole Recovery]<br />
|-<br />
| The Resurrections -- What Really Happens<br />
| [http://myth-one.com/chapter_8.htm The Resurrections -- What Really Happens]<br />
|-<br />
| Entire world population gay due to chemicals in the water<br />
| [http://thedailybanter.com/2013/01/alex-jones-the-government-is-trying-to-make-more-gay-people/ Alex Jones talks about chemicals that make people gay]<br />
|-<br />
| 2069<br />
| Public masturbation legalized<br />
| [http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:It's_still_not_okay_to_Pull_Your_Penis_out_in_Public It's still not okay to Pull Your Penis out in Public]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="3"| 2070<br />
| World population peaks<br />
| [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1108-global-population-to-peak-in-2070.html Global population to peak in 2070]<br />
|-<br />
| City-scale flooding disasters<br />
| [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3317033/City-scale-flooding-disasters-predicted-by-2070.html City-scale flooding disasters predicted by 2070]<br />
|-<br />
| 60% of world's energy comes from renewable sources<br />
| [http://www.ssisolarenergy.com/solar-alternative-energy/ What Is Alternative Energy All About?]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2071<br />
| Europe's temperatures rise by 3 °C<br />
| [http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/climate-change-adaptation/adaptation-tools/project-catalog/peseta-projection-of-economic-impacts-of-climate Projection of Economic impacts of climate change in Sectors of the European Union based on bottom-up Analysis]<br />
|-<br />
| World summer temperatures rise by 5 °C<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 2072<br />
| US retirement age is set to 75<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 2073<br />
| Oceans do not rise one foot<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2074<br />
| Number of 100-year-olds reaches one million<br />
| [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8848188.html UK to have 1 million centenarians by 2074]<br />
|-<br />
| Supertyphoons hit Japan<br />
| [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/09/08/national/super-typhoons-in-store-as-seas-warm/ Super typhoons in store as seas warm]<br />
|-<br />
| 2075<br />
| US retirement age set to 69<br />
| [http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2010/1112/Retirement-age-at-69-Deficit-plan-hits-Social-Security Retirement age at 69? Deficit plan hits Social Security]<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2076<br />
| Average scientific paper has more than 24 authors<br />
| [https://doclib.uhasselt.be/dspace/bitstream/1942/871/1/yitzhaki373.PDF Multiple Authorship in Biochemistry and Other Fields] (PDF)<br />
|-<br />
| Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
| {{w|Social Security (United States)|Social Security}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2078<br />
| Newspapers become obsolete and die out<br />
| The same prediction was made for 2017 and 2022. Even when most prognosticators agree that something will happen, there can still be much disagreement about ''when'' it will happen.<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="4"| 2079<br />
| US debt reaches 716% of GDP<br />
| {{w|US Debt}}<br />
|-<br />
| Lodgepole pines disappear from Northwest<br />
| [http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2011/feb/climate-change-causing-demise-lodgepole-pine-western-north-america Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America]<br />
|-<br />
| Floods commonplace<br />
| [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108101627.htm Floods To Become Commonplace By 2080]<br />
|-<br />
| Religion marginalized<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2080<br />
| Federal spending reaches 70% of GDP<br />
| [http://crfb.org/sites/default/files/our_debt_problems_are_far_from_solved_updated_2.pdf] (PDF)<br />
|-<br />
| UK population doubles<br />
| [http://forums.canadiancontent.net/international-politics/69603-britains-population-hit-110-million.html Britain's population to hit 110 million]<br />
|-<br />
| 2082<br />
| World population declines to one billion<br />
| [http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Population.html Population: The Elephant in the Room]<br />
|-<br />
| 2084<br />
| Robot policemen introduced<br />
| [http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Robotic-cops-set-to-stamp-out-crime-by-2084 Robotic cops set to stamp out crime by 2084]<br />
|-<br />
| 2085<br />
| US deficit reaches 62% of GDP<br />
| [http://moneybob.com/2010/06/28/paul-krugman-throws-in-towel-says-were-headed-for-another-depression/ Paul Krugman Throws In Towel, Says We’re Headed For Another Depression]<br />
|-<br />
| 2088<br />
| Japan becomes all-robot country<br />
| [http://www.theretributioners.tv/erics-blog/2009/11/25/-japan-to-become-all-robot-country-by-2088.html Japan To Become All Robot Country By 2088]<br />
|-<br />
| 2089<br />
| World halts fossil fuel use<br />
| {{w|Fossil Fuels}}<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| 2090<br />
| Global warming hits 7 °C <br />
| [http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/models-warn-of-7c-dangerous-climate-change-by-2090.html Models warn of 7C dangerous climate change by 2090]<br />
|-<br />
| Global warming hits 4 °C<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="11"| 2100<br />
| Global warming around 5-7 °C<br />
| [http://grist.org/article/bau-fd/ Hadley Center study warns of ‘catastrophic’ 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path]<br />
|-<br />
| Sea levels have risen by a meter or more<br />
| {{w|Future sea level}}<br />
|-<br />
| Joshua trees nearly extinct<br />
| [http://news.discovery.com/earth/joshua-trees-climate-change-110325.htm Joshua Trees Nearly Wiped Out by 2100?]<br />
|-<br />
| Earth's climate resembles that of the Cretaceous<br />
| [http://www.pnas.org/content/107/2/576 Atmospheric CO2 concentrations during ancient greenhouse climates were similar to those predicted for A.D. 2100]<br />
|-<br />
| Germany tropical<br />
| [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/climate-change-predictions-a-tropical-germany-by-2100-a-463378.html Climate Change Predictions: A Tropical Germany by 2100?]<br />
|-<br />
| Emperor penguins extinct<br />
| [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7851276.stm Emperor penguins face extinction]<br />
|-<br />
| Arctic permafrost thaws<br />
| [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surface-permafrost-could/ Surface Permafrost Could Disappear by 2100]<br />
|-<br />
| Rising seas flood coastal cities<br />
| [http://uanews.org/story/rising-seas-will-affect-major-us-coastal-cities-2100 Rising Seas Will Affect Major U.S. Coastal Cities by 2100]<br />
|-<br />
| Rain forests mostly gone due to climatic shifts<br />
| [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/08/06/890970/-Massive-Loss-of-Rainforest-Species-by-2100-eKos-Earthship-Friday Massive Loss of Rainforest Species by 2100]<br />
|-<br />
| All coral reefs gone <br />
| [http://planetsave.com/2010/10/15/coral-reefs-gone-by-2100/ Coral Reefs Gone by 2100?]<br />
|-<br />
| Gillette introduces 14-bladed razor<br />
| Each iteration of the Gillette line or safety razors has one more blade than the previous one. MadTV has also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAP8o5ZEo0 parodied] this.<br />
|-<br />
| 2101<br />
| WAR WAS BEGINNING<br />
| References {{w|Zero Wing}}, a 1981 Japanese computer game set in 2101, famous for poorly translated English and the source for "All your base are belong to us".<br />
|}<br />
<references/><br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:<big>'''THE FUTURE'''</big><br />
:'''According to Google search results'''<br />
:Events for each year determined by the first page of Google search results for the phrases:<br />
::{|<br />
|-<br />
|<small>"By <year>"</small><br />
|<small>"In year"</small><br />
|-<br />
|<small>"By the year <year>"</small><br />
|<small>"In the year <year>"</small><br />
|-<br />
|<small>"Will * by the year <year>"</small><br />
|<small>"Will * in the year <year>"</small><br />
|-<br />
|<small>"In <year>, * will"</small><br />
|<small>"By <year>, * will"</small><br />
|}<br />
<br />
:{|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" width="50px" valign="top"|2012<br />
|World population reaches 7 billion<br />
|-<br />
|Flying cars reach market<br />
|-<br />
|Canada cuts greenhouse emissions to 6% below 1990 levels as per Kyoto<br />
|-<br />
|Apocalypse occurs<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2013<br />
|National debt paid off through President Clinton's plans<br />
|-<br />
|Microchipping of all Americans begins<br />
|-<br />
|Homelessness ended in Massachusetts<br />
|-<br />
|Health care reform law repealed<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2014<br />
|US leaves Afghanistan<br />
|-<br />
|GNU/Linux becomes dominant OS<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2015<br />
|New Horizons reaches Pluto<br />
|-<br />
|Health care law causes hyperinflation<br />
|-<br />
|192 UN member nations achieve millennium development goals:<br />
*Extreme poverty and hunger eradicated<br />
*Universal primary education implemented<br />
*Women empowered, gender equality reached<br />
*Environmental stability ensured<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2016<br />
|Baby boomers begin turning 65<br />
|-<br />
|Android takes 38% of the smartphone market<br />
|-<br />
|Android takes 45% of the smartphone market<br />
|-<br />
|Windows Phone overtakes iOS in smartphones<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2017<br />
|China completes unmanned Lunar sample-return mission<br />
|-<br />
|Social Security stops running surplus<br />
|-<br />
|US budget balanced<br />
|-<br />
|Newspapers become obsolete and die out<br />
|-<br />
|Cosmetic surgery doubles<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2018<br />
|Social Security stops running surplus<br />
|-<br />
|Jesus returns to Earth<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2019<br />
|Social Security stops running surplus<br />
|-<br />
|Every baby has genes mapped at birth<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2020<br />
|Solar power becomes cheaper than fossil fuels<br />
|-<br />
|Keyboards and mice become obsolete<br />
|-<br />
|New Tappan Zee bridge constructed<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2021<br />
|US debt reaches 97% of GDP<br />
|-<br />
|US unemployment falls to 2.8%<br />
|-<br />
|Restored caliphate unifies Middle East<br />
|-<br />
|Lake Mead evaporates<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2022<br />
|Kilimanjaro snow-free<br />
|-<br />
|HTML 5 finished<br />
|-<br />
|Newspapers become obsolete and die out<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2023<br />
|Jesus returns to Earth (again)<br />
|-<br />
|US debt passes 100% of GDP<br />
|-<br />
|All unprotected ancient forests gone from Pacific Northwest<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2024<br />
|Atlantis begins to reappear<br />
|-<br />
|Orangutans extinct in wild<br />
|-<br />
|China lands men and women on the moon<br />
|-<br />
|NASA sets up permanent moon base<br />
|-<br />
|Female professionals pass males in pay<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2025<br />
|World population reaches 8 billion<br />
|-<br />
|Two billion people face water shortages<br />
|-<br />
|62 MPG cars introduced<br />
|-<br />
|US power fades<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2026<br />
|Atlantis emerges completely<br />
|-<br />
|Rock Bands die out<br />
|-<br />
|US debt paid off<br />
|-<br />
|Car accidents cease<br />
|-<br />
|West coast falls into ocean<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2027<br />
|Japan introduces new fastest Maglev train<br />
|-<br />
|Lyndon Larouche-planned Mars colony is established<br />
|-<br />
|Social Security stops running surplus<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2028<br />
|Tobacco outlawed<br />
|-<br />
|40% of coral reefs gone<br />
|-<br />
|US debt paid off<br />
|-<br />
|Social Security stops running surplus<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2029<br />
|Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
|-<br />
|Computers pass the Turing test<br />
|-<br />
|Aging reversed<br />
|-<br />
|Wikipedia reaches 30 Million articles<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2030<br />
|Half of Amazon rain forest lost to logging<br />
|-<br />
|Cancer deaths double from 2008 levels<br />
|-<br />
|Arctic ice-free in summer<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2031<br />
|Computers controlled by thought<br />
|-<br />
|Realtors replaced by technology<br />
|-<br />
|Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2032<br />
|"Big One" hits San Francisco<br />
|-<br />
|US elects first married lesbian President<br />
|-<br />
|Entire world converted to Christianity<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2033<br />
|Kilimanjaro ice disappears<br />
|-<br />
|India becomes superpower<br />
|-<br />
|Europe reaches Mars<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2034<br />
|US diabetes cases double, treatment costs triple<br />
|-<br />
|US builds autonomous robot army<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2035<br />
|80% of America's energy comes from renewable sources<br />
|-<br />
|Himalayan glaciers down 80% in size<br />
|-<br />
|Arctic sea lane opens<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2036<br />
|80% of US has access to high-speed rail<br />
|-<br />
|Asteroid Apophis misses/hits Earth<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2037<br />
|Arctic ice-free in September<br />
|-<br />
|Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2038<br />
|32-bit timestamps roll over, causing Y2K-level chaos<br />
|-<br />
|"Big One" hits California<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2039<br />
|US population hits 400 Million<br />
|-<br />
|Severe heat waves become commonplace<br />
|-<br />
|Scientology becomes majority religion in US<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2040<br />
|Arctic summers ice-free<br />
|-<br />
|Nanotechnology makes humans immortal<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2041<br />
|Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2042<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2043<br />
|World population passes 9 Billion<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2044<br />
|Mankind genetically engineered to be happy<br />
|-<br />
|Childhood obesity reaches 100%<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2045<br />
|Humans and machines merge<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2046<br />
|World's natural resources depleted<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2047<br />
|World ruled by banks and corporations<br />
|-<br />
|Tobacco industry fails<br />
|-<br />
|US begins using autonomous attack drones<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2048<br />
|Salt-water fish extinct from overfishing<br />
|-<br />
|Unisex bathing suits cover body from shoulder to ankle<br />
|-<br />
|Entire US population overweight<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2049<br />
|$1.000 computer exceeds computational ability of humanity<br />
|-<br />
|Singularity occurs<br />
|-<br />
|Fishing industry collapses<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="5" valign="top"|2050<br />
|80% of Earth's population lives in urban centers<br />
|-<br />
|China controls space<br />
|-<br />
|Sex with robots possible<br />
|-<br />
|Cars banned from European cities<br />
|-<br />
|One million species extinct from climate change<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2051<br />
|Atmosphere escapes into space<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2052<br />
|Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security spending exceed total US revenue<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2053<br />
|US budget balanced<br />
|-<br />
|Majority of Americans in prison<br />
|-<br />
|Cars driven by dogs<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2054<br />
|Hunger becomes unimaginable global problem<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2055<br />
|Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> doubled<br />
|-<br />
|Oil runs out<br />
|-<br />
|Copper, tin, lead, gold, and nickel all exhausted<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2056<br />
|RFID-tagged driverless cars<br />
|-<br />
|Robots given same rights as humans<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2057<br />
|150 Japanese settlers on Mars<br />
|-<br />
|Colorado River runs dry<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2058<br />
|Smoking ends in New Zealand<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2059<br />
|Humans have domesticated robots<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2060<br />
|Human race lives in peace<br />
|-<br />
|Extreme droughts across much of Earth<br />
|-<br />
|Global temperature rise reaches 4&nbsp;°C<br />
|-<br />
|Oil runs out again<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2061<br />
|Halley's comet returns<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2062<br />
|Uganda hosts World Cup<br />
|-<br />
|The Jetsons<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2063<br />
|First human clones reach adulthood<br />
|-<br />
|Population of Moon reaches 100,000<br />
|-<br />
|Population of Mars reaches 10,000<br />
|-<br />
|Spacecraft exceed speed of light<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2064<br />
|Clean Air Act finishes reducing haze in national parks to natural levels<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2065<br />
|Last coral reefs die out<br />
|-<br />
|Chernobyl cleanup complete<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2066<br />
|Cyprus achieves its goal<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2067<br />
|Americans live in domed cities and watch 3D TV<br />
|-<br />
|Redheads go extinct<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2068<br />
|Ozone hole over Antarctic finishes recovering<br />
|-<br />
|Lord Jesus rules Earth from throne in Jerusalem<br />
|-<br />
|Entire world population gay due to chemicals in the water<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2069<br />
|Public masturbation legalized<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="3" valign="top"|2070<br />
|World population peaks<br />
|-<br />
|City-scale flooding disasters<br />
|-<br />
|60% of world's energy comes from renewable sources<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2071<br />
|Europe's temperatures rise by 3&nbsp;°C<br />
|-<br />
|World summer temperatures rise by 5&nbsp;°C<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2072<br />
|US retirement age is set to 75<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2073<br />
|Oceans do not rise one foot<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2074<br />
|Number of 100-year-olds reaches one million<br />
|-<br />
|Supertyphoons hit Japan<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2075<br />
|US retirement age set to 69<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2076<br />
|Average scientific paper has more than 24 authors<br />
|-<br />
|Social Security trust fund exhausted<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2077<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2078<br />
|Newspapers become obsolete and die out<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="4" valign="top"|2079<br />
|US debt reaches 716% of GDP<br />
|-<br />
|Lodgepole pines disappear from Northwest<br />
|-<br />
|Floods commonplace<br />
|-<br />
|Religion marginalized<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2080<br />
|Federal spending reaches 70% of GDP<br />
|-<br />
|UK population doubles<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2081<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2082<br />
|World population declines to one billion<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2083<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2084<br />
|Robot policemen introduced<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2085<br />
|US deficit reaches 62% of GDP<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2086<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2087<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2088<br />
|Japan becomes all-robot country<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2089<br />
|World halts fossil fuel use<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="2" valign="top"|2090<br />
|Global warming hits 7&nbsp;°C<br />
|-<br />
|Global warming hits 4&nbsp;°C<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2091<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2092<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2093<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2094<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2095<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2096<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2097<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2098<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2099<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="11" valign="top"|2100<br />
|Global warming around 5-7&nbsp;°C<br />
|-<br />
|Sea levels have risen by a meter or more<br />
|-<br />
|Joshua trees nearly extinct<br />
|-<br />
|Earth's climate resembles that of the Cretaceous<br />
|-<br />
|Germany tropical<br />
|-<br />
|Emperor penguins extinct<br />
|-<br />
|Arctic permafrost thaws<br />
|-<br />
|Rising seas flood coastal cities<br />
|-<br />
|Rain forests mostly gone due to climatic shifts<br />
|-<br />
|All coral reefs gone<br />
|-<br />
|Gillette introduces 14-bladed razor<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" valign="top"|2101<br />
|WAR WAS BEGINNING<br />
|}<br />
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