scary and/or cool facts about the 21st century

all information from wikipedia

2020

Future Force Warrior is to be phased into United States armed forces.

Artificial intelligence researcher and Tran humanist Raymond Kurzweil, predicts that computers will have the raw computational capacities equivalent to the human brain.

Self-driving cars on smart-highways

3-D video conferencing

2021

NASA plans to colonize the moon with scientists by 2021 for more Mars research.

2027

Release of FBI documents pertaining to Martin Luther King

Release of Elvis Presley autopsy reports

2028

The world population is expected to reach 8 billion people in this year.

2029

The FBI will have permission to reveal to the public the Top Secret papers on John F. Kennedy's assassination.

2032

Expected completion of the Future Force Warrior project of the United States Army.

2033

First human mission to Mars, as a split mission

2039

September — According to the Kabbalistic commentator Nachmanides, the Messiah must come by this time or else Armageddon will occur.

2040

Scientists predict that by 2040 most of the Arctic ice cap will have melted away - all of it in the summer months - and the Polar bear will probably be extinct in the wild.

2046

World coal supply presumed to peak.

Robotics experts predict that around this time most work in advanced industrial nations will be done by Robots (news reports, December 2006).

2048

The world is projected to run out of harvestable seafood stocks.

2050

scientists have warned that by 2050, the Bonobo, Chimpanzee, Elephant, Gorilla, Orang-utan, Polar bear and other important species will be extinct in the wild if current trends continue (or perhaps even sooner).

2060

Isaac Newton predicted the Armageddon would happen no earlier than 2060