Predictions for 2020 | Future timeline

Read predictions for 2020, a year that will see the world transform in big and small ways; this includes disruptions throughout our culture, technology, science, health and business sectors. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.

Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A trend intelligence consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends in foresight. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.

Fast forecasts for 2020

The Paris climate change deal comes into effect with the goal of keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with pre-industrial times. link
Giant Magellan Telescope goes into operationlink
Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) goes into operationlink
Venera-D space probe to reaches Venuslink
China's "Great City" is fully builtlink
Scandinavia and Germany's "Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link" is fully builtlink
Congo's "Great Inga Dam" is fully builtlink
Germany's "HafenCity" is fully builtlink
China completes the world's largest rail system (120,000 km) link
World's first robot Olympics held in Japan link
Robot exoskeleton to help elderly persons remain active becomes widely available for purchase link
Legal marijuana sales to hit $23B in the United States. link
There are 6.1 billion smartphone users globally, overtaking basic fixed phone subscriptions. link
More people will own a phone than have electricity. link
The PS5 debuts. link
Solar becomes more economical than regular electricity in more than half of the U.S. link
United Nations member states agree to a 2020 treaty to regulate the high seas, which covers half the planet yet lacks adequate environmental protection. (Likelihood 80%)link
China completes its reform of its military, shrinking it by 300,000 soldiers and modernizing how it operates overall. link
China wants to land probe on dark side of the moon. link
India completes a massive optical fiber network that connects 600 million rural citizens to the Internet. link
Japan completes exaflop supercomputer using ARM processors. link
World's first robot Olympics held in Japan. link
Robot exoskeleton to help elderly persons remain active becomes widely available for purchase. link
The Voyager program is expected to terminate. link
China's first space station is scheduled to launch. link
2020 Summer Olympics to be held in Tokyo, Japan. link
The ESA (Europe), CNSA (China), FKA (Russia), and the SRO (India) each plan to send a human mission to the Moon. link
The interaction of the three main decadal solar cycles suggests an upcoming reduction in solar activity, with a low-energy period centered on 2020. link
Voyager 2 is expected to stop transmitting back to Earth. link
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Japan completes exaflop supercomputer using ARM processors. link
India completes a massive optical fiber network that connects 600 million rural citizens to the Internet. link
China wants to land probe on dark side of the moon. link
China completes its reform of its military, shrinking it by 300,000 soldiers and modernizing how it operates overall. link
The Paris climate change deal comes into effect with the goal of keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with pre-industrial times. link
Solar becomes more economical than regular electricity in more than half of the U.S. link
The PS5 debuts. link
More people will own a phone than have electricity. link
There are 6.1 billion smartphone users globally, overtaking basic fixed phone subscriptions. link
Legal marijuana sales to hit $23B in the United States. link
Robot exoskeleton to help elderly persons remain active becomes widely available for purchase link
World's first robot Olympics held in Japan link
Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 1.2 US dollars link
China completes the world's largest rail system (120,000 km) link
Congo's "Great Inga Dam" is fully built link
Scandinavia and Germany's "Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link" is fully built link
China's "Great City" is fully built link
Venera-D space probe to reaches Venus link
Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) goes into operation link
Giant Magellan Telescope goes into operation link
World population forecasted to reach 7,758,156,000 link
Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 5 per cent link
World sales of electric vehicles reaches 6,600,000 link
(Moore's Law) Calculations per second, per $1,000, equals 10^13 (one mouse brain) link
Average number of connected devices, per person, is 6.5 link
Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 50,050,000,000 link
Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 24 exabytes link
Global Internet traffic grows to 188 exabytes link
Largest age cohort for the Brazilian population is 15-24 and 35-39 link
Largest age cohort for the Mexican population is 20-24 link
Largest age cohort for the Middle East population is 20-24 link
Largest age cohort for the African population is 0-4 link
Largest age cohort for the European population is 35-39 link
Largest age cohort for the Indian population is 0-9 and 15-19 link
Largest age cohort for the Chinese population is 30-34 link
Largest age cohort for the United States population is 25-29 link