2080s

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Notable predictions and known events

2082

• All classified information held by the British Government about the Falklands War is to be released to the public.

2084

• October 26, 2084 — Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.
• November 10, 2084 — Transit of Earth as seen from Mars.

Fictional references

• Philip Kindred Dick's The Crack in Space is set on an overpopulated future Earth circa 2080.
• The events of the Sega Mega Drive strategy game The Hybrid Front start during this decade.
• 2081: The year in which "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut takes place.
• the XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association global season tournament is supposed to take place
• According to the storyline of the 1982 video arcade game Robotron: 2084, in 2084 man perfects the Robotrons, a robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation.
• In the X-COM Storyline, the Fourth Alien War (AW-IV) starts in 2084.
• Second American Civil War (2083 to 2086) in Judge Dredd
• The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and Thunderbirds 2086 are both set in this year, 100 years after their 1986 premieres.
• Claire Fisher, fictional artist in the HBO television series, Six Feet Under, dies in 2085 in Manhattan. She is 101 years old.
• The events described by a fictional version of Evel Knievel in the Midnight Brown song 2084. Including things like the TV series "Dog Monkey vs. Monkey Dog" and streets made of syrup.
• The Sci-Fi film Total Recall is set in 2084.
• A TV series called The Secret Show takes place in 2082.
• The Doctor Who story Warriors of the Deep takes place in 2084.
• The movie The Adventures of Pluto Nash takes place in 2087.
• A war in Ayreon's universe is set in 2084, essentially wiping out all mankind and creating a new soul, the new Universal Migrator.
• The first year of the Universal Century, the time line in which the 1979 anime series Mobile Suit Gundam and many of its sequels takes place, coincides with 2081.

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