Confira abaixo os destaques da década na lista feita por Jerome Glenn (Jerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org), CEO do The Millenium Project, rede global de institutos de pesquisa sobre o futuro.
2019
- Public quantum computing via the IBM cloud; Google (54 qubits) quantum supremacy (not publically available) passed China which has 50-cubit device.
- First photo of a Black Hole
- Atmospheric CO2 reached 411 ppm in May 2019 (in May 1958 in was 317.5)
- Global Warming declared emergency by 11,000 scientists in BioScience
- Greta Thunberg of Sweden triggers increased attention to global warming
- China first to land on the dark side of the Moon.
- Islamic State (ISIL) lost its land; Russia/Turkey take land left by the US
- Public protests in Algeria, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Haiti, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kashmir (Internet Blackout by India Lebanon. London, Montenegro, Russia, Sudan, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe
- US-China trade war
- President Trump Impeached
- Brussels Bans 5G due to insufficient health/biological impact studies
- Over 400 mass shootings in the USA
- US Stock Market hits record Dow passes 28,621.
- Measles increasingly spread worldwide due to lower vaccination rates
- North Korea continues to test missiles in volition of UN Security Council
- Brexit continues in limbo
- Notre Dame burns in Paris
- Same-Sex Marriage Legalized in Taiwan and Austria
- China increases facial AI surveillance; San Francisco bans facial recognition
- Space X launches 60 Internet Satellites
- Ebola Vaccine approved, while Ebola in the Congo continues
- Chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and multi-photon entanglement in silicon
- Large areas of the Amazon rain forests burn out of control
- A 315-billion tonne iceberg broke off Antarctica.
- Neurolink connects single neurons to single sensors connected to external computer
- Finland elects the youngest PM in the world.
- US pulls out of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)
- Volkswagen Beetle production ends
- First NASA all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
- Venice flooding emergency
- Pope Francis abolishes pontifical secrecy in sex abuse cases
- Deep fake software publicly available decentralized information warfare
- Plant-based hamburgers go mainstream in KFC, Berger King, McDonald’s, others
- Venezuela, Yemen, and Syria continue downward spiral
- 50th Anniversary of the first Moon Landing, ARPANET, and Woodstock.
2018
- Fusion maintained for 100 seconds Wendelstein 7-X
- North and South Korea teams together in Winter Olympics; allowed family visits
- China doctor uses CRISPR-cas9 for first gene edited embryo (to prevent AIDS)
- IBM’s Project Debater AI defeated a human in a debate
- China’s constitution changed to allow President Xi Jinping to rule for life
- Syria, Venezuela, Yemen continue to get worse
- Over half the world is middle class (US$ 11-110/day)
- Democrats regain US House of Representatives
- China-US trade sanctions, and NY Stock market volatility
- Political leadership uncertain in US, UK, France, and Germany while political leadership seems more certain in Russia and China
- Stephen Hawking dies
- Canada legalizes Marijuana (Uruguay did before)
- US Government reports global warming forecasts are more serious than before;
- 4th hottest year on record; 20 of earth’s hottest years occurred in last 22 years
- CO2 ppm reached 411.24 in May 2018; May 1998 it was 369.42
- NASA returned to Mars for analysis inside of the planet
- Several Russian strategic nuclear bombers land in Venezuela
- 107 of 109 space launches successful; SpaceX delivered 64 satellites on one rocket
- Elon Musk launched a Tesla car in space to test payload capacity of new rocket
- China launched spacecraft to land on the far side of the moon in January
- Voyager 2 left the solar system (Voyager 1 left in 2012)
- Apple reaches US$1 Trillion value, then falls back a few months later
- Extreme weather caused 4th highest number of insured losses
- About 2 million drones fly in the US expect dramatic increases worldwide
- 10-minute cancer test developed in Australia
- Saudi Arabia lets women drive, but executes a journalist in their embassy
- France beat Croatia to win the World Cup
- 5G wireless telecommunications technology
- US President Trump pulls out of Iran agreement
- Russian Information Warfare attacks found far more invasive on US election than previously knows via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and others
- Over 200 top US executives, politicians, entertainers, fired for sexual misconduct
- Based on program upgrades, four additional binary black hole mergers detected from data recorded in 2015, 2016, and 2017 – bringing the total to 10 black hole mergers and one binary neutron-star merger
2017
- Most babies born this year are likely to see the year 2100
- Me Too Movement knocks out stars in politics, sports, and the media, and spreads around the world exposing male abuse of women
- First successful human embryo genetically edited
- China announced quantum entanglement between satellite and ground station
- Putin denies thousands of Russian-sourced bots targeted at specific US voter-groups and regions via Twitter and Facebook accounts with thousands of hate-Hillary and pro-Trump messages reaching over 100 million US voters
- Donald Trump became US President with 3 million fewer votes than Hilary
- President Trump announced withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and UNESCO, while recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
- Mugabe ousted in Zimbabwe, Zuma ousted in South Africa, Yahya Jammeh ousted in Gambia
- Venezuela accelerates its downward spiral
- Cultural genocide, mass killings, rapes of Rohingya by Myanmar Army
- 2017 likely be the hottest year on record in the absence of the El Niño; July 2017 had tied July and August 2016 as the hottest month on record
- SwissRe estimated global warming assisted natural disasters during 2017 cost insurance industry about US$100 billion (Caribbean hurricanes cost $290 billion)
- Yemen : 1 million got Cholera; 8 million near starvation; water nearly gone
- EU fines Google $2.7 Billion for anti-trust activities
- Bitcoin hits $19,500 before retreating; NY’s Dow hits record 24,792
- SpaceX relaunched and re-landing a used Falcon 9 rocket booster saving $18 million per launch.
- Xi Jinping sets 5-year agenda at China’s 19th Party Congress China including the Belt and Road massive infrastructure program and AI leadership by 2030
- North Korea has 2,000 full-time hackers into financial systems (BBC)
- First observation of gravitational waves from collision of two neutron stars.
- North Korea tests hydrogen bomb and ICBM capable of reaching the USA
- Quantum entanglement with 10 qubits on a superconducting circuit achieved
- Defeat of ISIS/ISIL/IS control of Mosul most of the lands it had controlled
- Australia became the 25th country to legalize same-sex marriage
- Narrow AI proliferates from medical diagnosis to home assistants; even an AI robot opened a conference in South Korea and given citizenship in Saudi Arabia
- Emmanuel Macron provides a new face for European leadership
2016
- Most babies born this year are likely to see the year 2100
- Me Too Movement knocks out stars in politics, sports, and the media, and spreads around the world exposing male abuse of women
- First successful human embryo genetically edited
- China announced quantum entanglement between satellite and ground station
- Putin denies thousands of Russian-sourced bots targeted at specific US voter-groups and regions via Twitter and Facebook accounts with thousands of hate-Hillary and pro-Trump messages reaching over 100 million US voters
- Donald Trump became US President with 3 million fewer votes than Hilary
- President Trump announced withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and UNESCO, while recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
- Mugabe ousted in Zimbabwe, Zuma ousted in South Africa, Yahya Jammeh ousted in Gambia
- Venezuela accelerates its downward spiral
- Cultural genocide, mass killings, rapes of Rohingya by Myanmar Army
- 2017 likely be the hottest year on record in the absence of the El Niño; July 2017 had tied July and August 2016 as the hottest month on record
- SwissRe estimated global warming assisted natural disasters during 2017 cost insurance industry about US$100 billion (Caribbean hurricanes cost $290 billion)
- Yemen : 1 million got Cholera; 8 million near starvation; water nearly gone
- EU fines Google $2.7 Billion for anti-trust activities
- Bitcoin hits $19,500 before retreating; NY’s Dow hits record 24,792
- SpaceX relaunched and re-landing a used Falcon 9 rocket booster saving $18 million per launch.
- Xi Jinping sets 5-year agenda at China’s 19th Party Congress China including the Belt and Road massive infrastructure program and AI leadership by 2030
- North Korea has 2,000 full-time hackers into financial systems (BBC)
- First observation of gravitational waves from collision of two neutron stars.
- North Korea tests hydrogen bomb and ICBM capable of reaching the USA
- Quantum entanglement with 10 qubits on a superconducting circuit achieved
- Defeat of ISIS/ISIL/IS control of Mosul most of the lands it had controlled
- Australia became the 25th country to legalize same-sex marriage
- Narrow AI proliferates from medical diagnosis to home assistants; even an AI robot opened a conference in South Korea and given citizenship in Saudi Arabia
- Emmanuel Macron provides a new face for European leadership
2015
- UN Climate Change Agreement in Paris
- Hottest year on record
- Gene editing made much easier via CRISPR, could alter human evolution by germ-line engieering
- Gravitational waves detected from the collision of two black holes
- Running water discovered on Mars
- Skin cells turned into stem cells
- Mass migration into Europe
- Rise of ISIS, ISIL, IS, Daesh and Boko Haram
- Russia takes Crimea
- Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement
- Greek financial crisis
- Earthquake in Nepal nearly 9000 die
- US-China joint global warming statement on new goals
- Pope’s Encyclical Letter on global warming
- Solar Impluse – solar electric airplane circumnavigates the globe
- US-Cuba opens diplomatic relations
- US Supreme Court ruling same-sex marriages legal
- Global Je suis Charlie demonstrations against ISIL attacks in Paris
- Russian plane shot down over Egypt
- Nuclear Framework Agreement with Iran
- 3D printing and drones became mainstream
- China expands Island construction in South China Sea
- Environmental movement is back: Keystone XL Pipeline & Climate Agreement
- Carteret Islands environmental (sea-level) refugees (Papua New Guinea)
- Most UN Millennium Development Goals reached for 2015; Sustainable Development Goals set 2030
- 70th Anniversary of the United Nations
- Fly-by of Pluto video transmission received
- Vertical landing of two kinds of reusable rocket sections.
- Price of oil falls dramatically
- Costs of security for public spaces and cyberspace increase dramatically
2014
- US-China joint cooperation on reducing greenhouse gases
- Record growth in US and China’s stock markets
- 127 billionaires have pledged to give half their wealth to philanthropic causes
- 2014 expected to be the hottest year in recorded history
- CO2 emissions estimated to be 2.3% more than in 2013.
- Hybrid synthetic DNA replicated and grew (A third base pare (d5SICS and dNaM) added to natural E.coli DNA two base pairs (A-T & C-G)
- India’s spacecraft reached Mars; European‘s spacecraft landed on a comet
- Antares rocket, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic spacecrafts crash/blowup
- Syrian civil war continues over 2 million refugees
- Syrian chemical weapons surrendered
- ISIS, then ISIL, then IS beheadings; new US and others‘ airstrikes in Iraq/Syria
- One Malaysian Airplane disappears, another shot down over the Ukraine
- Russia takes Crimea and invades Ukraine (said with military volunteers)
- Falling oil prices, falling Ruble, and increasing inflation in Russia
- Mt Gox largest Bitcoin exchange failure
- Ebola kills 7,000 across West Africa (many more die of Malaria each year)
- 3D Printer on the International Space Station prints a socket wrench
- Private drones and computer rist watches begin to proliferate
- Argentine court gave Orangutan personhood rights for bodily autonomy.
- Pope Francis criticizes Vatican management for pathology of power
- First successful use of Simon’s algorithm on D-wave quantum computing
- Brain to brain computer mediated communications demonstrated
- A computer program Board of Directors Member for Deep Knowledge Ventures
- Panama and Suez Canals massive expansions
- Over half of all animals gone in less than 50 years (Living Planet Index)
- Malala Yousafzai shares Nobel Prize for Peace
- US-Cuba diplomatic relations
- New Government in Iraq
- US combat troops leave Afghanistan
2013
- New Pope sets a new tone for the 1.2 billion Roman Catholics
- Global Slavery Index estimates there are about 30 million slaves in 2013.
- Nearly 40% of humanity uses the Internet
- Malala Yousafzai survives Taliban assassination and becomes a new world force
- Nelson Mandela’s passing reminds the world of greatness
- The largest petition to recall a government in history: 22 million sign petition in Egyptian for Morsi’s resignation
- Egyptian military crackdown on the Moslem Brotherhood
- China lands a robot rover on the Moon, India launches spacecraft to Mars
- Elon Musk continues private sector space program SpaceX Falcon 9 launching a geostationery satellite at 1/3 the cost
- Syrian Civil War worsens while it agreed to disarm chemical weapons
- Hassan Rouhani opens Iran to the West and signs nuclear processing agreement
- No. Korean conducts 3rd underground nuclear bomb test and executes Pres’s uncle
- China tensions with Japan & neighbors increase; US & China warships monitor
- US Affordable Health Care Website problems
- CO2 passes 400 parts per million in the atmosphere; 2013 7th hottest year recorded
- Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines with the most powerful tropical storm to make landfall on record with gusts reaching 235 mph.
- Shanghai and California initiate cap and trade systems
- First hamburger publicly cooked and tested from pure meat tissue grown without growing a cow
- UN adopts the Arms Trade Treaty of conventional weapons
- Edward Snowden release of US intelligence wiretapping heads of state.
- Largest meteor in a century hits Russian city of Chelyabinsk
- USA makes recreational use of marijuana legal in Colorado and Washington and Uruguay becomes the first country to make it legal to produce and sale marijuana
- US Government shutdownfor 16 days; Tea Party begins to lose power in the US
- Human adult cell nuclei inserted in egg cells with previous nuclei removed that produced new embryonic stem cells cloned for new stem cell line.
- Higgs particle confirmed that gives rise to matter
- Google Glass demonstrated
- President Obama announces Human Brain Initiative
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report
- The were 628 recorded cyber-attacks over a 24 hour period on July 24, 2013 with majority targeting the USA
2012
- Humanity continues to be succeeding /winning more than it is losing, according to the 28 variables in the State of the Future Index
- Higgs-like Particle discovered that may explain how matter is created
- Skydive from the edge of space (24 miles) going faster than sound (Mach 1.24)
- Moslem Brotherhood takes over the leadership of Egypt
- Egypt’s Morsi goes from world hero (cease fire agreement) to world pariah dictator within 24 hours
- China and its ocean neighbors contest boundaries increasing tensions wit`h and among Japan, Philippians, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei
- North Korea successfully launches intercontinental missile for orbital satellite
- Wikipedia and others went dark to successfully block the US Congress’s SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).
- Big Data becomes popular subject for decisionmakers to explore how to use
- China’s third human space launch carrying the first Chinese woman into space rendezvoused with China’s Space Lab
- SpaceX’s Dragon is the first successful private sector station re-supply vehicle
- Mars Landing of Curiosity Robot
- China proposes space power collaboration with India
- Driverless cars by Google are legal in US (California, Florida, and Nevada)
- President Obama’s endorsement of Gay Marriage
- London Olympics – nurtures spirit of world peace
- Facebook’s IPO financial loss
- Pope’s assistant exposes some of the Vatican’s inner political corruption.
- Severe political stalemate in Washington, D.C., US continues
- More than 100 journalists have been killed so far this year, making 2012 the deadliest year for media since UNESCO began keeping records on the issue
- Syria’s civil war accelerates.
- Likely 2012 will be the hottest year in US recorded history
- Climate continues to change: USA is 60% in drought, super hurricane Sandy, heavy flooding in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore, UK
- Euro financial crisis continues with riots especially in Greece and Spain
2011
- World grew to 7 billion people
- Arab Spring/Awakening
- Occupy Movements initially on Wall Street
- Other protests took to the streets in Greece, Russia, China, Spain, others
- Japan Disasters
- Tenth Anniversary of 911 Terrorist Attacks
- Bin Laden Killed
- US pulled out of Iraq
- Steve Jobs Died
- Tablet computers
- Space Shuttle retired
- China produced more cars that the US or Japan
- Severe political stalemate in Washington, D.C., US
- Robot 25% of Japan over 65 years old
- Robonaut 2 humanoid robot (without legs) on International Space Station
- IBM Watson computer beats human Jeopardy champions
- Super High Vision 7,680 by 4,320 parcels created by Sharp is 16 times HD resolution
- Brittan’s Royal Wedding
- Unprecedented volume of Methane found bubbling up from shallow Arctic sea floor
- Large Hadron Collider discovered a particle composed of a quark and anti-quark
- Programmable quantum photonic chip
- 26 Year old in charge of nuclear weapons in North Korea
- More Internet users in China than the entire population of the USA
2010
- 2010 was the warmest year the earth has yet recorded.
- China passed Japan in 2010 to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States, and has the second largest number of billionaires in the world.
- BP Gulf Oil catastrophe
- Wikileaks
- Philippines may pass India this year as the largest call center than India – Financial Times.
- Airports across Europe closed for a week by Volcano ash (Eyjafjallajökull) causing chaos for millions.
- North Korea’s sinking a South Korean ship and shelling one of its islands.
- Stuxnet computer worms attacking Iran’s nuclear program.
- Financial crises and severe government cut backs across much of Europe.
- Synthetic biology breakthrough creating an artificial life form.
- US health care law
- Haitian earth quake and cholera, Pakistan floods
- Mexican organized crime violence continues to escalate
- More electronic than paper books sold by Amazon.
- Tea Pot boils in the USA
- Sarah Palin shots a defenseless animal.
- Gays ok in US Military.
- Polar Ice continues to melt faster than foretasted, while few results in Copenhagen and Cancun.
- Frozen water discovered on the Moon – One the lunar pole about 600 million metric tons (158 billion gallons) in 40 craters.
- H1N1 declared a pandemic
- US combat troops out of Iraq