2080s

Notable predictions and known events

2080

• According to The China Modernization Report, China is expected to be one of the most developed countries in the world, equivalent to that of the United States today.

2082

• All classified information held by the British Government about the Falklands War is to be released to the public.^{[citation needed]}

2084

• 26 October – Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.
• 10 November – Transit of Earth as seen from Mars.

2088

• 27 October - Mercury occults Jupiter, first time since 1708, but very close to the sun and impossible to view with naked eye

2089

• May–June – Magicicada broods X (17-year) and XIX (13-year) will emerge simultaneously.^{[citation needed]}

Fictional events

2080

• Philip K. Dick's The Crack in Space is set on an overpopulated future Earth circa 2080.
• The events of the Sega Mega Drive strategy game The Hybrid Front start during this decade.
• The XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association global season tournament is supposed to take place.
• The Doctor Who audio drama Loups-Garoux is set in Brazil in 2080.
• 2080 is referenced in a song with the same name by the band Yeasayer. The song calls attention to different possibilities for the future.

2081

• The year in which Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut takes place is 2081.
• Gerard K. O'Neill wrote a book named 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future, which includes his predictions on the future world.
• The first year of the Universal Century, the time line in which the 1979 anime series Mobile Suit Gundam and many of its sequels takes place, coincides with 2081.

2082

• A TV series called The Secret Show takes place in 2082.
• The animated television series Ōban Star-Racers takes place in 2082.

2083

• Second American Civil War (2083 to 2086) in Judge Dredd
• Andrea White's novel Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 takes place in 2083.

2084

• According to the storyline of the 1982 arcade video game Robotron: 2084, in 2084 man perfects the Robotrons, a robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation.
• In the X-COM Storyline, the Fourth Alien War (AW-IV) starts in 2084.
• The events described by a fictional version of Evel Knievel in the Midnight Brown song 2084. Including things like the TV series Dog Monkey vs. Monkey Dog and streets made of syrup.
• The Sci-Fi film Total Recall is set in 2084.
• The Doctor Who story Warriors of the Deep takes place in 2084.
• A war in Ayreon's universe is set in 2084, said to be the "Sixth Extinction" by the "Forever" aliens (the "Fifth Extinction" was that of the dinosaurs 65 million years prior), causing the extinction of mankind save for the colony on Mars. Due to Mars' incapacity to support life, the Mars colony is effectively doomed, and after the death of its last inhabitant, the last human being, he is re-created as a new soul, the new Universal Migrator.
• There will be a gay candidate for US president in 2084, according to The Simpsons.
• 2084: Tomorrow is Today, a futuristic novel by John William McMullen set in the year 2084 in which the world has spiraled from economic collapse, limited nuclear war, and global anarchy into a United World under the protection of The Program.^[1]

2085

• Claire Fisher, fictional artist in the HBO television series, Six Feet Under, dies in 2085 in Manhattan at the age of 102.
• 9-Volt from WarioWare, Inc., dies in 2085 in Diamond City at the age of 72.

2086

• The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and Thunderbirds 2086 are both set in this year, 100 years after their 1986 premieres.

2087

• The film The Adventures of Pluto Nash takes place in 2087.

2089

• Venus Wars (1989): A war for independence breaks out on a colonized Venus in the year 2089.

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