2045

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Years: 2042 2043 204420452046 2047 2048
2045 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar2045
MMXLV
Ab urbe condita2798
Armenian calendar1494
ԹՎ ՌՆՂԴ
Assyrian calendar6795
Bahá'í calendar201–202
Bengali calendar1452
Berber calendar2995
British Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar2589
Burmese calendar1407
Byzantine calendar7553–7554
Chinese calendar甲子(Wood Rat)
4741 or 4681
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4742 or 4682
Coptic calendar1761–1762
Discordian calendar3211
Ethiopian calendar2037–2038
Hebrew calendar5805–5806
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2101–2102
 - Shaka Samvat1967–1968
 - Kali Yuga5146–5147
Holocene calendar12045
Igbo calendar1045–1046
Iranian calendar1423–1424
Islamic calendar1467–1468
Japanese calendarHeisei 57
(平成57年)
Juche calendar134
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4378
Minguo calendarROC 134
民國134年
Thai solar calendar2588
Unix time2366841600–2398377599

2045 (MMXLV) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

Date unknown

  • Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts a Technological singularity for 2045, i.e. a runaway cycle of self-improvement by intelligent machines, resulting in explosive technological development.[1]
  • Based on Ray Kurzweil's ideas, Time magazine predicts humans will be immortal by this year.[2]
  • Demographic projections "foresee the population of Egypt overtaking that of Russia by 2045," according to Niall Ferguson.[3]
  • Two of Japan's largest cities - Tokyo and Osaka - will be connected by a direct high-speed maglev route.[4]
  • The United Kingdom is set to overtake Germany as Europe's leading economy.[5]
  • According to a 2003 NASA study, a manned mission and subsequent colonization of Jupiter's moon Callisto may become possible around this year [6]

In fiction

References

  1. Lamb, Gregory M. (2005-12-10). "Progress at light speed: Ray Kurzweil". USA Today. Retrieved 2008-01-28. 
  2. "2045: The year man becomes immortal, published on 10 February 2011.
  3. "The Year the World Really Changed," Newsweek, November 16, 2009
  4. http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2011/2011-05-30-01.html
  5. "The N-11: More Than an Acronym" - Goldman Sachs study of N11 nations, Global Economics Paper No: 153, March 28, 2007.
  6. High Power MPD Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) for Artificial Gravity HOPE Missions to Callisto
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