2020 Totally Explained

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2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Pronunciation

ť See also: Year pronunciation

There is a debate as to how specific years of the 21st century, including 2020, should be pronounced in English. Although the majority of English-speakers say "two thousand (and) X" for any specific year post–1999, it's often suggested that the continuation of this type of pronunciation for the entire 21st century would be inappropriate or unnatural, given the alternative "twenty X" option.
Many experts agree that majority usage of "two thousand (and) X" is a result of influences from the Y2K hype, as well as the way "2001" was pronounced in the influential 1968 film, . Experts also suggest that since former years such as 1805 and 1905 were commonly pronounced as "eighteen oh" or "nineteen oh" five, the year 2005 should naturally have been pronounced as "twenty oh-five".
Many people, ranging from linguistic and academic experts to Internet bloggers, predict that the "twenty X" pronunciation method will eventually prevail, but a time frame as to when this change will occur often differs. The year 2010 is suggested by many, while 2011

World population is expected to reach 7.6 billion people.

Flash floods are expected to increase in all parts of Europe. Space

According to current plans and workings for Project Constellation, NASA should be returning Humans to the Moon by 2020.

The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon by this year.

China will probably also land astronauts on the Moon by 2020, according to Scientific American, March 2008.

Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly beyond Pluto and Charon to the Kuiper Belt Objects. Military

NASA Venus Surface Explorer mission to Venus (part of the New Frontiers program)

Future Force Warrior to be phased into United States armed forces. Politics

The Philippines becomes a developed country.

Trinidad and Tobago becomes a developed country under the Vision 2020 development plan initiated by Prime Minister Patrick Manning.

Malaysia becomes a developed country, under the Wawasan 2020 plan initiated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

India's 2020 Vision of becoming a developed state is fulfilled.

Pakistan becomes a developed country.

Chile becomes a developed country.

Brazil becomes a developed country.

The People's Republic of China has stated it intends to take back Taiwan under Chinese rule at latest by 2020.

The People's Republic of China becomes more economically powerful than the United States by 2020, according to Mearsheimer 1991: 398. Construction

Completion of restoration works to the Forbidden City in the People's Republic of China.

Completion of the National Trunk Highway System in the People's Republic of China.

Completion of the construction of the Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.

Completion of the urban revitalization of downtown Lisbon, Portugal. Technology

Artificial intelligence researcher and transhumanist Raymond Kurzweil, predicts that computers will have the raw computational capacities equivalent to the human brain.

Self-driving cars on smart-highways

3-D video conferencing Sports

The Chinese Cricket Association predicts it'll gain test status by 2020

2020 in fiction

Comics

Comics set in 2020:

Computer and video games

Games set in 2020:

Tom Clancy's EndWar (2008)
(2003)
Perfect Dark Zero (2005)
Super Baseball 2020 (1991)
TimeSplitters (2000) (the Planet X mission)
(2006)
(1991)(The Level "Neon Night Riders" Takes place in 2020)
Keitai Denjū Telefang (2000)
Half-Life 2 (2004)
Half-Life 2 Episode One (2006) - possibly because it concludes Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 Episode Two (2007) - because it concludes from Half-Life 2 Episode one
Half-Life 2 Episode Three - not yet released, but will conclude Episode Two
Crysis (2007)
Raid 2020 (1989)

Film

Films set in 2020:

Roujin Z (1991)
Mission to Mars (2000)
Reign of Fire (2002)

Television

Television programs set in 2020:

Knights of God (1987)
Sealab 2020 (1972)
Terrahawks (1983–1984)
Dark Angel (2000-2002), second half of Season One and first half of Season Two
Supervolcano (2005)

Music

Songs about 2020, or including 2020

The Network has a song, CD, and single called "Money, Money, 2020" and is about like in the year 2020

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