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==Predicted and scheduled events== |
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*[[January 20]]A president of the [[United States]] will be inaugurated. |
*[[January 20]] - A president of the [[United States]] will be inaugurated. |
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*[[February 9]] - Terrorist [[José Padilla (prisoner)|José Padilla]] scheduled release from [[ADX Florence]]<ref>[http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=20796-424&x=56&y=14 BOP.gov: Jose Padilla] viewed 2008-08-10</ref> |
*[[February 9]] - Terrorist [[José Padilla (prisoner)|José Padilla]] scheduled release from [[ADX Florence]]<ref>[http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=20796-424&x=56&y=14 BOP.gov: Jose Padilla] viewed 2008-08-10</ref> |
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2021 (MMXXI) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 20 - A president of the United States will be inaugurated.
February
- February 9 - Terrorist José Padilla scheduled release from ADX Florence[1]
May
- May 11 - Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada.[2]
Unknown dates
- NASA will have colonized the moon with scientists for more Mars research.[citation needed]
- Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
- CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
- Costa Rica will become a carbon-neutral nation. The target date has been set by President Oscar Arias. [3]
- CityRail will commence phasing out its 1970-1977 V-Sets for newer, more modern cars. The new trains are currently unknown.
- Intel scientists predict that the shrinking of microchips roughly every 18 months (Moore's Law) will reach a fundemental limit by 2021. The Semiconductor industry won't be able to shrink transistors much, if at all, beyond the 16 nanometer technology process. [4]
2021 in fiction
Computer and video games
- Shadowrun: On April 30, ten percent of the world's population suddenly transform into new racial types, resulting in the ork and troll races.
- Trauma Center: New Blood: The chronological setting of New Blood.
Film
- Click (2006): Michael Newman's father dies.
- Set in 2021: Moon Zero Two (1969)
- Set in 2021: Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Literature
- In the Terminator novel New John Connor Chronicles: Dark Futures, Skynet initiates Judgement Day.
- Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham (2004): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2 1942.
- Set in 2021:
- The Children of Men by P.D. James (1992)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (earlier editions set in 1999) (1968)
Television
- set in 2021: Cowboy Bebop (1999-2000) "The Gate Accident" took place
- Set in 2021: Sealab 2021 (2000–2005)
- set in 2021: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (2008-Present)
References
- ^ BOP.gov: Jose Padilla viewed 2008-08-10
- ^ Elections BC
- ^ National Geographic, February 2008
- ^ "Moore".