2045

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

Predicted and scheduled events

• August 12 – A solar eclipse will occur from northern California to Florida.

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]
• Demographic projections "foresee the population of Egypt overtaking that of Russia by 2045," according to Niall Ferguson.^[2]
• Two of Japan's largest cities - Tokyo and Osaka - will be connected by a direct high-speed maglev route.^[3]
• The United Kingdom is set to overtake Germany as Europe's leading economy.^[4]

In fiction

• In the novel 2045: A Story of Our Future, Peter Seidel portrays what the world could be like in 2045, if current trends in environmental destruction, population growth, and economic inequality continue.
• Beginning of Corporation War in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
• In South Africa white minority rule comes to an end as most of the whites are massacred in an uprising, in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge.
• The American Dad character Klaus has a body again and a grandson.
• The events portrayed in the movie Critters 4 take place in 2045.
• Time in History where Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars, the 3rd Tiberium War takes place.
• In Macross 7, The main events of the series take place in this year.
• Doomsday in Angels & Airwaves movie L)VE (LOVE)

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