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Table 4 The third cycle timeline

From: Toward computer-supported semi-automated timelines of future events

Date

Event

2025

The vaccines market increases its value to over $ 70 billion

2030

The adverse effects of climate change can increase maize the crop in southern Africa by up to 30% compared to 2008 figures

2030

Sustainable Development Goals are interlinked to ensure unification throughout all the represented sectors

2030

Annual growth rates will likely exceed 10 to 15%

2033

About 47% of the US employment is at a high risk of automation

2035

Brazil emerges as a significant producer and supplier of oil, ranking as the 6th largest energy provider globally

2035

NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars

2035

China plans to establish a settlement on the moon, followed by a colony on Mars

2040

Global energy consumption increases by almost 80% when compared to 2016

2040

There will be no more working days in Mexico, and everything will be assigned by projects and resolved within the designated timeframe for delivery

2050

Travel demand for motorized private transport will decline by 28% compared to 2015 as the rural demographic is expected to decline

2050

The Brazilian population stabilizes at 240 million

2063

Africa will have a more decisive role in a globalizing world, aiming to achieve the SDGs primarily through normal economic growth

2068

Technology is embedded in our daily lives, improving lifestyles globally

2100

Expansion of global per-capita growth by a factor of three to eight, regardless of biophysical limitations, compared to 2020

2300

If CO2 emissions from current fossil fuel sources continue, the highest concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere could reach 1400 ppm, resulting in a global temperature increase of 8ºC or more