2060s

The 2060s (pronounced "twenty-sixties") is a decade of the Gregorian calendar that will begin on January 1, 2060, and will end on December 31, 2069.

Millennium: 3rd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 2060
  • 2061
  • 2062
  • 2063
  • 2064
  • 2065
  • 2066
  • 2067
  • 2068
  • 2069
Categories:

Time capsules
  • September 1, 2061 – A time capsule at St. Gabriel School in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada is scheduled to be opened for its 150th anniversary of its school division (Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools). It was sealed on September 11, 1911 (was not buried).
  • The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 100 years after it was locked in 1968.

Notable predictions and known events

2060
  • One third of the world's energy could be solar, according to projections by the International Energy Agency (IEA).[1]
  • Temperatures could rise by 4 °C.[2][3]
  • Sea levels will rise by 9-24 inches.[4]
  • China and India combined will be economically larger than the entire developed world.[5]
  • The Office for National Statistics has predicted that the United Kingdom's population will be 81 million.[6]
  • Japan estimates that 40% of its population will be of retirement age, whilst its population will have shrunk by 30% from its maximum.[7][8]

2061

2062

2065
  • November 11 – Transit of Mercury
  • November 22 12:45 UTC – Venus will occult Jupiter. It will be very difficult to observe from Earth, because the elongation of Venus and Jupiter from the Sun at this time will be only 7 degrees. This event will be the first occultation of a planet by another since January 3, 1818; however the next will occur less than two years later, on July 15, 2067.[15]

2066
  • The UK is projected to have at least half a million people aged over 100.[16]

2067
  • February 15 – Assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, all sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972, will enter the public domain in the U.S.[17]
  • July 15 11:56 UTC — Mercury will occult Neptune. This rare event will be very difficult to observe from Earth.
  • October – A METI message Cosmic Call 1 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, star HD 178428.

2068
  • The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 100 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.
  • According to futurist David Passig, there will be an undersea city by 2068.

2069

Speculations

[21][22]

2061
  • Commercial mining of the Moon's elements could be economically feasible.[9]

2062

Fictional references
  • 21st century in fiction

References
  1. "One Third of World's Energy Could Be Solar by 2060, Predicts Historically Conservative IEA". World Future Energy Summit. December 2, 2011. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  2. "Cancun climate change summit: temperatures could rise 4C by 2060". Telegraph. November 29, 2010. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  3. "Could big bills from extreme weather drive climate action?". Thomson Reuters Foundation. 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  4. "Sea level rise in South Florida: expect floods, sea wall woes". Sun Sentinel. 2013-06-20. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  5. Walker, Andrew (2012-11-09). "OECD: 'Dramatic shift' in balance of economic power". BBC. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  6. Easton, Mark (2012-07-16). "England and Wales population up". BBC. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  7. "Japan's lower house passes sales tax bill". BBC. 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  8. Lah, Kyung (2012-01-30). "Japan's population faces dramatic decline". CNN. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  9. "Moon mine 'could start in 50 years'". BBC News. January 2, 2012.
  10. "Programs: Education: Project 2061". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  11. "NASA - 2006 Transit of Mercury". Eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  12. "Comet Halley". Nineplanets.org. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  13. "The State of the World: 2062". DiscoverMagazine.com. 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  14. "Historic and Projected Mortality Data from the Period and Cohort Life Tables, 2012-based, UK, 1981-2062". ONS. 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  15. "See Venus and Jupiter get close at dawn on 13 November". Astronomy Now. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  16. "Young people 'more likely to reach 100 years old'". BBC News. August 4, 2011.
  17. "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, 1 January 2011". Cornell Law School. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  18. Exclusive: NASA has begun plans for a 2069 interstellar mission, New Scientist, By John Wenz, 19 December 2017
  19. Nasa planning 2069 mission to look for life on newly discovered Earth-like planets, Independent, Harry Cockburn, 19 Dec 2017
  20. "The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sent a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049 respectively | Arianica encyclopedia: Iran's history, art, and civilization heritages". Arianica.com. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  21. Stephen D. Snobelen (March 2003). "Statement on the Date 2060". isaac-newton.org.
  22. "Newton set 2060 for end of world". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 20, 2007.
  23. Rudhyar, Dane Astrological Timing: The Transition to the New Age New York: 1972 Harper & Row
  24. "2060-2069 timeline contents". Futuretimeline.net. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  25. "Welcome to the 50th Anniversary of Exoplanet Exploration" (PDF). Nasa.gov. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
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