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Many complex surgeries will begin to be preformed by robots.
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Bionic eyes that have high resolution are commercially available. Bionic eyes mimic the function of the retina to restore sight to those with severe vision loss.
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Complex organ replacements can take place due to stem cell growth.
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Five-year survival rates for breast cancer are approaching 100%.
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Nanotech clothes are growing rapidly in use. Nanoparticles are increasingly used as coating on clothing to make them waterproof, microbicidal, and UV-blocking.
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Brain implants are possible to restore lost or repressed memories of humans.
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Lunar Mission One drills into the Moon's South Pole to uncover new truths about the moon.
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3D printers can now print human organs.
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Rising sea levels are wreaking havoc on the Maldives (people in a country located in South Asia).
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Carbon sequestration (the action of taking legal possession of asses until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met) is underway in many nations
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The resurrection of many extinct species has been made possible due to technological advancements.
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Human-like artificial intelligence and intelligent advertising are becoming a reality. Intelligent advertising is the future way of advertising where the television or computer screen one is looking at recognizes their face and plays ads that appeal to that person.
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The number one global disease is depression.
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Stem cell pharmacies are a common place just as regular pharmacies are.
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China's space station is deorbited, meaning it is in the process of being in orbit in the solar system.
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Five-year survival rates for kidney cancer are approaching 100%.
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The Caribbean coral reefs are in danger of being wiped out
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Self-driving vehicles are widespread and used due to problematic human error while driving.
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Alzheimer's Disease is fully curable, saving 35 million people across the globe.
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The United States's Air Force introduces a new stealth bomber, which renders it's victims virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors.
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Teleportation of complex organic molecules will take place
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The world's first trillionaire exists in society
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Claytronics, which are futuristic concepts that are made up of nanoscale robotics and computer science to create interactive 3D objects. Claytronics will revolutionize consumer products by 2040.
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Orbital solar power is commercially feasible which means that we will have the ability to compete effectively and make a profit.
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The global population is expected to reach nine billion.
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White people become a minority in the USA
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Transglobal highways and rail networks have emerged
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Humans are becoming intimately involved with machines
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Japan's population falls below 100 million
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The military will have fully automated intelligent machines.
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King crabs begin to infest the Antarctic marine ecosystem.
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Robots become common features in homes as house hold appliances
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Nearly half of the Amazon rainforest has been deforested.
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Genetically engineered "designer babies" for those who can afford it.
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A vast majority of countries have achieved a democracy, altering the way countries are run and communicate.
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There is a permanent human presence on Mars
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The U.S. population reaches half a billion.
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Islam is the world's dominant religion
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The first ever space elevator is becoming operational
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Some humans are more non-biological than biological.
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Five-year survival rates for brain tumors are reaching 100%.
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Religion is fading away from the European culture
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The average employee works less than 20 hours per week.
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Large improvements have been made in human intelligence due to AI
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Man now has control of earthquakes and tsunamis
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Mind uploading enters mainstream society. Mind uploading is the process of scanning the mental state you are in with your thoughts and saving it to a computer
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Asteroid terrorism is the process of redirecting an asteroid to hit a certain region of the world or neighboring planets.
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Traditional employment is becoming obsolete.
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Global rewilding efforts are underway to restore nature for what it once was.
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Christianity is fading from the American culture.
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Humanity is a Type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale, which is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to use for communication. Right now, we are a Type 0 because we still sustain our energy needs from dead plants and animals. To be a Type 1, we would need to boost our current energy production over 100,000 times to reach this status. This means that we could have control over all natural forces.
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Microbial life is found on exoplanets, or planets that are not in our solar system.
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Superhuman powers are available to common citizenry.
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Humanity is now entering Type 2 civilization on the Kardashev scale.
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Mars has been terraformed, meaning it resembles Earth and can fully support human life.
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Plastics and other wasteful products are now disappearing from Earth's biosphere.
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Venus has been terraformed.
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Purely biological humans are now on average seven feet tall and live 120+ years.
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The Earth encounters polar reversal which is when the magnetic north is aligned with the geographic south, and the magnetic south is aligned with the geographic north.
