2021

Predicted and scheduled events

February

• February 9 - Terrorist José Padilla scheduled release from ADX Florence

May

• May 11 - Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada.

Unknown dates

• NASA will have colonized the moon with scientists for more Mars research.
• 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.
• CityRail will commence phasing out its 1970-1977 V-Sets for newer, more modern cars. The new trains are currently unknown.
• A president of the United States will be inaugurated on January 20.
• 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.

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)

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