2020

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2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar. It is the 2020th year of Common Era (also called Anno Domini), the 20th of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century. It also will be the first year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

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• The New Zealand government and The Ministry of Health plan to make New Zealand completely smokefree by 2020.
• The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.^[1]
• The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link in Denmark is expected to be completed.
• The main segment of track extending from San Francisco to Anaheim of the California High Speed Rail system is expected to be completed.
• The 2020 Summer Olympics will be celebrated in either Istanbul, Madrid or Tokyo. The host city will be announced on September 7, 2013.
• India's space agency, ISRO, plans to send a manned space mission to the moon in this year.^[2]
• This is the year that the Hong Kong MTR South Island Line east section is expected to be completed.
• The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon by this year.^[3]
• Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
• Several developing countries have plans to become developed countries by 2020:
  • Vietnam becomes a developed country.
  • Indonesia becomes a developed country.
  • Malaysia becomes a developed country, under the Wawasan 2020 plan initiated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
  • India becomes a developed country under 2020 long term development plan.
• By 2020, according to financial experts, the Chinese Yuan will be one of the world's three main currencies, along with the U.S. Dollar and the Euro. It will be used in international trading and for currency reserves.^[4]
• Volvo hopes to use radar, sonar and other advanced technologies to create a crash-proof car by 2020.^[5]
• The IBM Institute for Business Value concluded from their study "Automotive 2020: Clarity Beyond the Chaos" that all automobiles will have some level of hybridization by 2020.^[6] Toyota's vice president in charge of powertrain development also believes that all Toyota cars produced will be hybrid vehicles by the year 2020.^[7]
• Technological predictions for 2020 include cars that drive themselves on smart highways, 3-D video conferencing, artificial brain cells, artificial lungs, artificial kidneys, and the identification of the genetic causes of all diseases.^[8]
• All European households will get 30 megabits per second (Mbps) broadband by 2020, with half enjoying more than 100Mbit/s.^[9]
• The Large Hadron Collider will be substantially upgraded.^[10]
• Estimated completion date for the Compass navigation system.^[11]
• Planned launch of ESA's Cosmic Vision first L-class mission. The candidates are the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, the Next Gravitational-Wave Observatory and the Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics.
• Planned completion date for the Chinese space station is "around 2020" according to Zhang Hailian of the China Manned Space Engineering Office.^[12]

In fiction

Comics

• Comics set in 2020:
  • 2020 Visions (1997–1998)
  • Iron Man 2020
  • Superman 2020
  • Sekirei

Novels

• Perfect Dark: Initial Vector by Greg Rucka (2005)
• Revolution 2020 : Love, Corruption and Ambition by Chetan Bhagat (2011)

Computer and video games

• Games set in 2020:
  • Raid 2020 (1989)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991): The Level "Neon Night Riders" Takes place in 2020.
  • Super Baseball 2020 (1991)
  • Keitai Denjū Telefang (2000)
  • Command and Conquer: Generals (2003)
  • Perfect Dark Zero (2005)
  • Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (2006)
  • Crysis (2007)
  • Tom Clancy's EndWar (2008)
  • Supreme Ruler 2020 (2008)
  • MAG: Massive Action Game (2010) The second war of the S.V.E.R starts off in 2020

Other games

• Roleplaying games
  • Cyberpunk 2020

Film

• Films set in 2020:
  • Roujin Z (1991)
  • Mission to Mars (2000)
  • Yesterday (2002)
  • Reign of Fire (2002)
  • Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
  • Thunderbirds (2004)
  • V for Vendetta (2006)
  • Real Steel (2011)

Television

• Television programs set in 2020:
  • Sealab 2020 (1972)
  • Terrahawks (1983–1984)
  • Knights of God (1987)
  • C.O.P.S. (1988–1989)
  • Futurama A Big Piece of Garbage NASA sends all of Earth's garbage into space in a cluster of a giant sphere aboard a rocket (2000)
  • Dark Angel (2000–2002), second half of Season One and first half of Season Two
  • Supervolcano ^[13] (2005)
  • Dollhouse (2009–2010), The events of the series finale takes place.
  • Doctor Who: The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood (2010)

Music

• Songs about 2020, or including 2020:
  • Ace Enders and a Million Different People has a song on their debut CD, The Secret Wars called "Bring Back Love (Year 2020)" It is about helping the financially unstable and bringing back a general love among humans.
  • In Head Automatica's song, "Graduation Day", the music video foretold that in the year 2020, the goth girl who is graduating will become the President of the United States.
  • In Eminem's song, "We Made You", from his 2009 album Relapse, the rapper mentions the year 2020 in the outro of the song, in the line "Dr. Dre, 2020, yeah!"

See also

• 2020 Vision

References