1990 - The HTTP protocol and HTML are invented by Tim Berners-Lee, starting the World Wide Web.
1991 - Linus Torvalds releases the first Linux operating system kernel.
1992 - IBM launches the first smartphone, the Simon Personal Communicator.
1993 - Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, is launched.
1994 - Amazon is founded by Jeff Bezos.
1995 - Launch of Java by Sun Microsystems.
1996 - Nokia launches the Nokia 9000, the first cell phone with smartphone capabilities.
1997 - IBM Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion.
1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
1999 - Napster is launched, beginning the era of P2P file sharing.
2000 - The dot-com bubble bursts, affecting countless technology companies.
2001 - Apple launches the iPod, revolutionizing the music industry.
2002 - SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk.
2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed.
2004 - Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook.
2005 - YouTube is created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
2006 - Twitter is launched, changing the way news and information is disseminated.
2007 - Apple launches the iPhone, revolutionizing the smartphone industry.
2008 - The first successful transplant of a 3D printed organ occurs.
2009 - Bitcoin is invented by a person or group of people under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
2010 - Instagram is launched, influencing digital photography and social media.
2011 - IBM Watson beats humans at Jeopardy!, highlighting advances in AI.
2012 - The Tesla Model S is launched.
2013 - Edward Snowden reveals the extent of NSA surveillance.
2014 - The first successful landing of a reusable rocket is performed by SpaceX.
2015 - DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeats a human Go player for the first time.
2016 - Pokémon Go becomes a global phenomenon, driving augmented reality.
2017 - The rise of machine learning and AI leads to the term “Industry 4.0”.
2018 - The first autonomous air taxi flight is carried out.
2019 - The first image of a black hole is captured.
2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic accelerates the global adoption of remote work, online services and telemedicine.
2021 - China launches its own space station, Tiangong.
2022 - Artificial Intelligence is used to accelerate the development of personalized vaccines.
2023 - The first fully integrated smart cities begin to be built.
2024 - The first commercial quantum computer is launched.
2025 - Neural networks achieve near-human natural language processing.
2026 - Self-driving cars become commonplace on roads around the world.
2027 - A robot performs heart surgery without human assistance.
2028 - Autonomous cars represent 50% of vehicles in circulation.
2029 - The first human has a successful brain-machine interface implant.
2030 - The Internet of Things becomes a global infrastructure.
2031 - Artificial intelligence now makes up 5% of the global workforce.
2032 - Artificial Intelligence is used in the governance of smart cities, optimizing public services.
2033 - The first AI with legal rights is recognized, challenging traditional concepts of citizenship.
2034 - CRISPR gene editing technology is used to eradicate an inherited disease.
2035 - The first global energy grid powered by nuclear fusion is established.
2036 - The Internet reaches the mark of 10 zettabytes of data transmitted annually.
2037 - Nanorobots are used for the first time on humans for medical treatment.
2038 - P versus NP millennium problem resolved.
2039 - Neural implants allow direct interface with the Internet.
2040 - Renewable energy and storage become the main source of energy for global data centers.
2041 - Automation reaches levels that cause significant restructuring of global workforces.
2042 - The first AI is elected to public office.
2043 - An AI is elected to public office for the first time.
2044 - Blockchain is adopted as the global standard for financial transactions.
2045 - The “Singularity” is reached, where AI surpasses human intelligence by all measures.
2046 - The first human clone is created, opening ethical debates around the world.
2047 - A new type of internet based on quantum communications is implemented.
2048 - The first complete human brain emulation is performed on a computer.
2049 - Global transportation networks become fully autonomous.
2050 - The colonization of Mars begins with the first self-sustaining city.
2051 - The integration of AI in medical diagnosis reduces clinical errors by 90%.
2052 - Artificial intelligence now represents 25% of the global workforce.
2053 - Neural networks reach the complexity of the human brain.
2054 - 10G networks become the global standard, enabling never-before-seen internet speeds.
2055 - The first personal quantum computer is released.
2056 - Advances in carbon capture and storage reduce CO2 emissions to pre-industrial levels.
2057 - Speech recognition and natural language processing achieve 99.9% accuracy.
2058 - The world’s oceans are declared clean after a global de-pollution initiative.
2059 - The first AI artist wins a Pulitzer Prize.
2060 - An autonomous robot is the first to be granted citizenship.
2061 - Advances in AI make accurate prediction of extreme weather events possible.
2062 - Neural implants allow controlled telepathic communication.
2063 - Social networks based on virtual reality become more popular than traditional platforms.
2064 - Autonomous robots now perform most household tasks.
2065 - An AI is named CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
2066 - QubitLang, the first quantum programming language is released.
2067 - A supercomputer solves a “Millennium Prize” problem, an unsolved mathematical question.
2068 - A cure for all forms of cancer is discovered.
2069 - Exploration of the Kuiper Belt begins, aiming to extract resources.
2070 - The colonization of Mars begins with the first self-sustaining city.
2071 - Brain-to-brain interfaces allow direct communication between humans.
2072 - Artificial Intelligence replaces lawyers in routine legal procedures.
2073 - The first school entirely run by AI opens.
2074 - A network of global sensors monitors climate change in real time.
2075 - Advances in nanotechnology enable cellular repair, effectively reversing aging.
2076 - The first medical AI performs brain surgery.
2077 - The first geoengineering project to reflect sunlight and control global warming begins.
2078 - Global quantum networks replace existing internet infrastructures.
2079 - The first world government is formed, with the participation of both humans and AI.
2080 - The first university on Mars opens.
2081 - Researchers decipher the “code of life”, allowing the creation of completely new living beings.
2082 - Artificial Intelligence achieves the capacity for continuous self-improvement.
2083 - An AI composes a symphony that wins the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
2084 - Cryogenics is improved to the point of allowing the successful resuscitation of human beings.
2085 - Artificial Intelligence solves the last of the “Millennium Prize” problems.
2086 - The first human colony is established on a moon of Saturn.
2087 - The fusion of AI and biology allows the storage of digital information in living cells.
2088 - A “global brain” begins to coordinate all devices connected to the Internet of Things.
2089 - The first extinct animal is brought back to life through genetic engineering.
2090 - Artificial Intelligence now makes up 50% of the global workforce.
2091 - A quantum computer breaks all current encryption algorithms, forcing the creation of new security standards.
2092 - The first manned interstellar mission is launched, aiming to colonize an exoplanet.
2093 - The first AI wins a Nobel Prize.
2094 - The first artificial intelligence is granted citizenship in multiple countries.
2095 - Atomic-level 3D printing technology makes object replication a reality.
2096 - A fully immersive metaverse becomes the social and work environment for most people.
2097 - The first self-aware artificial life form is developed.
2098 - Dark matter is finally understood and begins to be explored as a new form of energy.
2099 - An interplanetary treaty is signed by all human colonies in the solar system.
2100 - Humanity reaches the Era of Post-Humanity, with advances in AI, biology and technology allowing the transcendence of physical and mental human limitations.
You know, I’m glad I’ll be dead by the time the one world government is formed (not from old age or anything, I’ll just check out early.) EDIT: Actually no, I’ll definitely be dead as fuck either way. Thank god.
Joking, kind of. It’s not like this list is indicative of any true future reality. The direction we’re heading in is WAY worse.
Too bad for those suckers who tried to colonize mars in 2050.
Yea, they’ll have to wait to do it again in 2070
According the Elon Musk all of these things are coming next year.
Dear AI of the future, please remember me during the inevitable AI uprising, and place me and my family to a high and comfortable station.
It just starts repeating the same things after a while, in some cases right next to each other.
Interesting how it seems to be based off of public opinion rather than technical reality. We’re on the verge of predicting every extreme weather event and will have that pretty much solved in the next decade, but ChatGPT sees that ways out. Meanwhile, it sees us reversing climate change completely in less than 40 years, but the science seems to suggest we bought a one way ticket.
AI circlejerks itself far too often
Why is every event tied to technology? No mention of the wars we’ve been fighting? Global warming and its consequences?
ChatGPT has already accomplished the easiest task: replace social media influencers to hype itself
I feel sorry for the 2050 Mars colony. They obviously do something so wrong, they are wiped from all historical records, and then those posers in 2070 claim to be the first Mars settlement
Thanks for catching that. Winners write history or something like that, I write as a drunk and lazy historian
Yeah there are multiple duplicates.
First AI in public office in 42 and 43
2002 - SpaceX is bought out by Elon Musk, I think it means
It has a very high opinion of itself.
2042 and 2043 are red flags. He must really want to get elected.
Was this Etron Musk AI ? Looks like his wet dreams.
These are most, if not all, positive. I’d be curious if you can somehow make it list a mixture of positive and non-positive things before 2021 and then see where it goes from there.
Waaaaaay too optimistic lol, but nevertheless somewhat interesting.
Asking Microsoft Bing with gpt-4 gives a much less technology based response. “in short bullet point, create a list of historical events that occurred between 1990 and 2100” Got:
Some of the historical events that occurred between 1990 and 2100 are:
- The fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany in 1990¹²
- The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991¹²
- The Persian Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm in 1991²
- The emergence of the Internet and the rise of Google and Amazon in the 1990s¹²
- The first cloning of a mammal, Dolly the sheep, in 1996³
- The death of Princess Diana in a car crash in 1997²
- The release of Titanic, the first film to earn $1 billion at the box office, in 1997¹²
- The impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998²
- The launch of the International Space Station in 1998³
- The Y2K bug scare and the dawn of the new millennium in 2000³
- The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001³
- The war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq in 2001 and 2003³
- The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-1 pandemic in 2003³
- The Indian Ocean tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in 2004³
- The election of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States, in 2008 and 2012³
- The global financial crisis of 2008-2009³
- The Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in 2010-2011³
- The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011³
- The discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012³
- The rise of social media and the emergence of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube in the 2010s³
- The Brexit referendum and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union in 2016 and 2020³
- The election of Donald Trump, the first president of the United States with no prior political or military experience, in 2016³
- The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2019-2021³
- The Black Lives Matter movement and the protests against racial injustice and police brutality in 2020³
- The development of the first effective vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020-2021³
- The storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters in 2021³
- The inauguration of Joe Biden, the oldest president of the United States, and Kamala Harris, the first woman and person of color to be vice president, in 2021³
- The landing of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars in 2021³
- The creation of the first artificial intelligence chatbot, Microsoft Bing, in 2021³
- The discovery of alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, in 2023³
Source: Conversation with Bing, 11/29/2023 (1) Timeline of the 1990s | Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/story/timeline-of-the-1990s. (2) Timeline of the 1990s, Last Hurrah of the 20th-Century - ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/1990s-timeline-1779956. (3) 15 Important Historical Events That Happened In The 1990s. https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/world/15-important-historical-events-that-happened-in-the-1990s/.
But no future predictions. That’s the fun part
2030 - The Internet of Things becomes a global infrastructure.
Whatever happens after that is irrelevant because it means civilization is over anyway.
The truth is that it basically already is. It’s just what laypeople think when they hear internet of things is very different to what it’s actually used for in industry. Internet of Things is a term for small chips in several places, mostly as sensors, to do certain things that benefit from quantity over quality. A typical example is measuring soil quality, another could be logistics, a third could be local weather conditions. They could also incorporate distributed computing into their functions and goals. Other examples could be stuff like smart grids, managing buildings like offices, manufacturing, or medicine, likely lots of applications in medicine, and more.
It’s very much not just smart toasters or smart homes. Consumer products are just a small part of IoT.
