2070s
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[edit] The decade as a whole
This decade is expected to be called the "twenty-seventies".
[edit] Notable predictions and known events
[edit] 2071
- The Walt Disney World Resort will celebrate its 100th anniversary.
[edit] 2074
- The Green Wall of China will be completed.
[edit] 2075
- The United Nations estimates that the world population will peak at 9.1 billion.[1]
[edit] 2076
- Sedna - In 2076, around May 31, the planetoid 90377 Sedna is expected to reach its perihelion, in other words, reach the closest it can get, orbit-wise, to the Sun. It is expected to reach a distance of 76 AU, or 76 times the distance Earth is from the Sun. Sedna has a highly elliptical orbit, thus it is difficult to locate —at its aphelion, it reaches about 942 AU. This date is subject to adjustment as Sedna's orbit is still being refined.
- The United States will celebrate its 300th (tercentennial) year of independence.
- 100th anniversary of the official opening of the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada (June 26)
[edit] 2079
- This year will mark the 2000th anniversary of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii.
[edit] Religious references
- Bede computed that the world would end in 2076, extrapolating from Biblical references and the year of Jesus' birth[2]
[edit] Fictional references
- The 4th Edition of Shadowrun takes place in the 2070s.
- The Dexter's Laboratory movie, Ego Trip, has some scenes that take place in 2070.
- In Judge Dredd (and the 2000 AD fictional universe in general) 2070 was the year President Robert L. Booth started the Atomic Wars. Booth, last president of the United States, was deposed. The following year the Battle of Armageddon took place leading to the defeat of Booth's forces.[3]
- The events of the anime series Cowboy Bebop take place in 2071. The events of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie take place during Halloween of that year.
- The Nicktoon My Life as a Teenage Robot takes place in 2072.
- The computer game System Shock takes place in 2072, as does the computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War.
- The movie Equilibrium takes place in 2072.
- The Evil Dexter clone from Dexter's Laboratory as mentioned in the episode "Over Labbing" will destroy Dexter in 2072.
- The back-story to Antihero for Hire lists 2075 as the year Canada invaded the United States with an army of genetically modified dinosaurs.
- Robert A. Heinlein's book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress begins on May 13 2075.
- The manga and anime series Planetes takes place in the year 2075.
- In Robert A. Heinlein's book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar Declaration of Independence is sent to Earth on July 4, 2076; much of the book takes place in 2076.
- Chou Ninja Tai Inazuma! is set in the year 2076.
- In the computer game Fallout a nuclear world war takes place in 2077.
- Screamers is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film released in 1995 and set 83 years later in 2078.
- Judge Dredd graduates from the Academy of Law.
- The events that set the book Ender's Game into motion take place in 2070.
[edit] Notes
- ^ United Nations (February 24, 2005). World population to increase by 2.6 billion over next 45 years, with all growth occurring in less developed regions. Press release. Retrieved on 2006-11-25.
- ^ B.A. Robinson (August 29, 2006). Predictions that the end of the world will happen after the year 2010. ReligiousTolerance.org. Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. Retrieved on 2006-11-25.
- ^ Judge Dredd's Timeline. Dredd Zone. 2000AD Online. Retrieved on 2006-11-25.
