How the future looks as of August 17, 2007
Brian Gongol
| Year | Years away | Event | Source | Date of projection |
| 2008 | 1 | Burj Dubai completed | Architectural Record | 2007.07.24 |
| 2008 | 1 | Half of the world's population lives in urban areas | UN Population Fund | 2007 |
| 2008 | 1 | Beijing Summer Olympics | International Olympic Committee | 2007.08.09 |
| 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 |
| 2009 | 2 | Microsoft launches successor to Windows Vista | PC World | 2007.02.09 |
| 2009 | 2 | Medical microrobots for human injection enter production | Wired | 2007.01.18 |
| 2009 | 2 | China becomes world's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions | New York Times | 2006.11.06 |
| 2009 | 2 | First commercial spaceflight of the "Silver Dart" | PlanetSpace | 2007.02.01 |
| 2010 | 3 | Retirement of Space Shuttle | USA Today | 2005.08.08 |
| 2010 | 3 | Biofuels production causes decline in gas prices | Dow Jones Newswires | 2007.07.30 |
| 2010 | 3 | Mass production of 50%-efficient solar cells | University of Delaware | 2007.07.23 |
| 2010 | 3 | Vancouver Winter Olympics | International Olympic Committee | 2007.08.09 |
| 2010 | 3 | GE Ecomagination products and services reach $20 billion in sales | GE | 2007.05.24 |
| 2010 | 3 | First deliveries of HondaJet (8-passenger air taxi) | Honda | 2007.06.27 |
| 2011 | 4 | 20th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm | National Security Archive | 2001.01.17 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4G cellular phone networks deployed in United States | PC Magazine | 2007.06.20 |
| 2011 | 4 | Supercomputer built to reach 10 petaflops | New York Times | 2007.08.06 |
| 2011 | 4 | O'Hare airport opens two additional runways | City of Chicago | 2007 |
| 2012 | 5 | Wireless e-mail reaches commodity status | Tekrati | 2007.07.26 |
| 2012 | 5 | London Summer Olympics | International Olympic Committee | 2007.08.09 |
| 2012 | 5 | First private hotel in space opens for tourists | RTE News | 2007.08.10 |
| 2012 | 5 | Bioengineered kidneys enter production | Charleston Regional Business Journal | 2006.08.21 |
| 2012 | 5 | NYC taxi fleet completely converted to hybrid engines | City of New York | 2007.05.22 |
| 2013 | 6 | Medicare becomes insolvent | Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees | 2007.04.23 |
| 2013 | 6 | Banana crops worldwide critically threatened by fungal disease | The Guardian | 2003.01.16 |
| 2014 | 7 | Worldwide temperatures average 0.5°F above 2004 temperatures | BBC News | 2007.08.09 |
| 2014 | 7 | Sochi Winter Olympics | International Olympic Committee | 2007.08.09 |
| 2014 | 7 | Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Hyundai produce 5.6 million vehicles annually in US | Ward's AutoWorld | 2007.08.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | Mass production of self-driving cars | PC Magazine | 2007.06.20 |
| 2015 | 8 | Iran has its first nuclear weapon | Washington Post | 2005.08.02 |
| 2015 | 8 | Earliest projections for peak oil production | National Petroleum Council | 2007.07.18 |
| 2015 | 8 | Honda recycles 95% of used vehicle components in Japan | Honda | 2005 |
| 2016 | 9 | Ultra-HDTV debuts | PC Magazine | 2007.06.20 |
| 2016 | 9 | Auto sales in India reach 3,000,000 vehicles per year | Bloomberg | 2007.05.03 |
| 2017 | 10 | Domestic robots express emotions and provide companionship | Daily Telegraph | 2007.02.18 |
| 2017 | 10 | Second Life exceeds size of the Internet | The Register | 2007.08.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | US commercial airlines fly 1.256 trillion passenger miles | FAA | 2005 |
| 2017 | 10 | US general aviation fleet exceeds 250,000 aircraft | FAA | 2005 |
| 2017 | 10 | 5000 microjets in service in US airspace | FAA | 2005 |
| 2017 | 10 | GPS units become accurate to a matter of centimeters throughout the US | National Geodetic Survey | 2007.02.12 |
| 2018 | 11 | Completion of modernization program at O'Hare airport | FAA | 2005.10.30 |
| 2019 | 12 | Medicare trust fund exhausted | Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees | 2007.04.23 |
| 2019 | 12 | Flexible OLED screens reach mass market | PC Magazine | 2007.06.20 |
| 2020 | 13 | Launch date for asteroid interceptor with nuclear warheads | Flight International | 2007.08.03 |
| 2020 | 13 | NASA's Orion spacecraft carries out first manned trip to Moon | NASA | 2007.08.08 |
| 2020 | 13 | China places a robotic rover on the moon | BBC News | 2005.08.12 |
| 2020 | 13 | Self-piloted vehicles reach mainstream | Channel 4 | 2005.08.03 |
| 2020 | 13 | Scotland's population enters long-term decline | General Register Office for Scotland | 2005.10.20 |
| 2021 | 14 | China has 23 million single males | Texas A&M University | 2005.09 |
| 2022 | 15 | Annual increase in life expectancy exceeds 365 days | Reason Magazine | 2007.07.27 |
| 2022 | 15 | Geni project creates alternative to conventional Internet | The Guardian | 2007.08.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | US domestic oil reserves exhausted | National Petroleum Council | 2007.07.18 |
| 2023 | 16 | Computers with equivalent to human brain capacity sell for $1,000 | The Guardian | 2003.09.23 |
| 2024 | 17 | US establishes permanent manned base on Moon | CNN | 2006.12.05 |
| 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 |
| 2025 | 18 | ESA conducts human mission to the Moon | European Space Agency | 2002.10.11 |
| 2026 | 19 | High-resolution recording of an individual's entire life experience | Daily Telegraph | 2006.12.13 |
| 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 |
| 2028 | 21 | Medicare and Medicaid consume 10% of US GDP | Congressional Budget Office | 2007.07.25 |
| 2029 | 22 | Youngest Baby Boomers reach age 65 | US Census Bureau | 2006.01.03 |
| 2030 | 23 | Japan inaugurates manned moon base | Discover Magazine | 2006.11.28 |
| 2030 | 23 | 80% of world's population lives in developing countries | UN Population Fund | 2007 |
| 2030 | 23 | Fossil fuels provide 75% of world energy | National Petroleum Council | 2007.07.18 |
| 2030 | 23 | Thames Barrier effectiveness falls to half of design capacity | UK Environment Agency | 2007 |
| 2030 | 23 | ESA conducts first human mission to Mars | European Space Agency | 2006.01.09 |
| 2031 | 24 | Married adults a minority in England | The Guardian | 2005.09.30 |
| 2032 | 25 | 50th anniversary of EPCOT Center | 2719 Hyperion | 2007.07.24 |
| 2036 | 29 | Near-Earth passage of asteroid Apophis | NASA JPL | 2006.10.19 |
| 2036 | 29 | Bacteriophages widely used to prevent food-borne infections | ABC News | 2006.11.02 |
| 2040 | 33 | Global warming eliminates most Arctic sea ice | National Geographic | 2006.12.12 |
| 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 |
| 2047 | 40 | Hong Kong's status as special administrative region of China expires | Heritage Foundation | 2007 |
| 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 |
| 2050 | 43 | Medicare and Medicaid consume 20% of US GDP | Congressional Budget Office | 2007.07.25 |
| 2090 | 83 | Worldwide temperatures average 7°F above 1990s | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | 2007.02.05 |