Future Scale:
How the future looks as of July 30, 2007

Brian Gongol


Year Years away Event Source Date of projection
2008 1 Burj Dubai completed Architectural Record 2007.07.24
2009 2 50th anniversary of Communist control in Cuba CBS News 2007.07.26
2009 2 First private commercial spaceflight of "SpaceShipTwo" Space.com 2007.07.03
2010 3 Space Shuttle retired USA Today 2005.08.08
2010 3 Biofuels production causes decline in gas prices Dow Jones Newswires 2007.07.30
2011 4 20th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm National Security Archive 2001.01.17
2013 6 Medicare becomes insolvent Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees 2007.04.23
2019 12 Medicare trust fund exhausted Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees 2007.04.23
2025 18 India's population exceeds China's United Nations Population Division 2006
2025 18 0.6% of adults in US infected with HIV/AIDS United Nations Population Division 2006
2027 20 China's GDP exceeds US GDP The Economist 2007.06.28
2028 21 Medicare expenditures exceed Social Security expenditures Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees 2007.04.23
2029 22 Youngest Baby Boomers reach age 65 US Census Bureau 2006.01.03
2045 38 Global life expectancy reaches 75 years United Nations Population Division 2006
2046 39 Oldest Baby Boomers reach age 100 US Census Bureau 2006.01.03
2050 43 India's GDP exceeds US GDP The Economist 2007.06.28
2050 43 Russia's population falls below 100 million Radio Free Europe 2006.05.19
2050 43 World population reaches 9.2 billion United Nations Population Division 2006