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2026 (MMXXVI) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
Predicted events
- Automatic mission to Mars as proposed in the Aurora Programme
- November 13 — Heinz von Foerster's predicted technological (or rather demographic) singularity occurs.
- The southern extension of BART to connect the East Bay with Silicon Valley in California is scheduled to open.
- The 23rd FIFA World Cup will take place. No countries have applied to host it yet.
- Opening of the DLR extension to Charing Cross
- Opening of the DLR extension to Catford
- November 3: Elections for the 120th United States Congress
- At current population growth rates, India will surpass China as the world's most populous country.
- May 2: Projected release of terrorist Hamid Hayat from U.S. prison.
- Having begun in 1882 construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona will be finished
- 2026 Winter Olympics; The host city is to be chosen in 2019
2026 in fiction
Film
- Set in 2026: Metropolis (1927)
Literature
- "There Will Come Soft Rains," a short story by Ray Bradbury, is set on August 4.
- "Red Mars", the story begins on this date.
Television
- seaQuest DSV: An economic summit takes place that places hundreds of thousands of undeveloped basins back on the market.
- Star Trek: Enterprise (episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" (2005): World War III begins, continuing through 2053.
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