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<<silently>>This first action sets a Twine variable to what Javascript detects as the current year on the user's machine. In this case, the Twine variable is handled by default as an expression rather than a string. That means that it will be handled as if it is a number that can be used in calculations, instead of a name.
<<set $current_year to new Date().getFullYear()>>
<</silently>>
<center><h2>What year is this?</h2></center> <br>
Your device says the current year is $current_year. Is that right? <br><br>
* [[Yes, that's this year.|AskBirthYear]] <br>
* [[No, I want to say that it's a different year right now.|SetCurrentYearToFake]] <br><center><h2>How old are you now?</h2></center> <br>
<!-- This changes the birth year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $user_birth_year to parseInt($user_birth_year)>>
<!-- If the user manually set the current year, then this changes the current year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $current_year to parseInt($current_year)>>
<<if $user_birth_year gte $current_year>>
You've told me a birth year that comes after or during the current year. You're trying to say you were born in the future. I think that's a little strange, but I can see a few reasons why you might try to ask a question like that. Maybe you're trying to predict the future of a child who hasn't been born yet, or a fictional character. So I guess I'll just roll with it. Since this isn't how I was intended to be used, be aware that some of my upcoming questions and predictions might seem a little weird.
<br><br>
<</if>>
<<if $user_birth_year lte $current_year - 122>>
Somehow I don't think you're old enough to have been born as far back as <<print
<<if $user_birth_year>>, since that was over 122 years ago, before $current_year. I think that's a little strange, but I can see a few reasons why you might try to ask a question like that. Maybe you're trying to create a timeline for an ancestor, historical figure, or fictional character. So I guess I'll just roll with it. Since this isn't how I was intended to be used, be aware that some of my upcoming questions and predictions might seem a little weird. After all, 122 is about as old as I expect humans to get.
<br><br>
<</if>>
<!-- Add ones for if the user says they're 4 years old or less, but then acknowledge some good reasons why the user might do that. -->
You were born in $user_birth_year, and this is $current_year.
<<if $current_year eq $user_birth_year>>
This is the year that you are born.
<<elseif $current_year eq ($user_birth_year - 1)>>
It will be 1 more year until you will be born.
<<elseif $current_year eq ($user_birth_year + 1)>>
This is the year that you turn 1 year old.
<<elseif $user_birth_year lt $current_year>>
This is the year that you turn
<<print $current_year - $user_birth_year>>
years old.
<<elseif $current_year lt ($user_birth_year + 2)>>
It will be
<<print $user_birth_year - $current_year>>
more years until you will be born.
<</if>>
<br><br>
<!--
Next, within this same passage, evaluate what generation the user is. Ask them if that's right. If the user thinks of themself as a different generation, let them change it.
I think that would make you a member of generation [variable], right? [Include other names for that generation, if appropriate, so user understands.] The divisions between generations are overlapping and cultural, not just chronological, so you might think of yourself as a member of a different generation than that.
* Yes, that's my generation, or close enough. [This continues to the normal next passage.]
* No, I think of myself as a different generation. [This goes to a passage that lets the user pick their generation.]
-->
Is there someone close to you, who will be an important part of your future? That person could be a parent, sibling, partner, child, friend, or anybody. Even a pet animal, or someone who hasn't been born yet. I can include some predictions about this individual, too, if you like.
<ul>
<li> [[Yes, there is someone close to me, who I'd like to include.|Friend1Name]]</li>
<li> [[No thank you.|HealthQs]]</li>
</ul>
<center><h1>Life Timeliner</h1></center> <br>
I'm Life Timeliner, a software wizard that creates a timeline of your life. I can even scientifically predict your personal future.<br><br>
<<linkappend "<center>''How my predictions work''</center>">><br>
To predict your future, I use mathematics, scheduled and predictable events on national and global levels, and information you tell me about yourself and your plans. For example, we can be very sure that the sun will have an eclipse in a certain year, and that you and your best friend would turn a certain age during a certain year.
<br><br>
I don't use predictions from astrology, psychics, or anything like that. Those are interesting, but you won't find them here. I try to only base my predictions on science.
<</linkappend>>
<br><br>
<center>''Privacy''</center><br>
While you and I are working together, I will temporarily remember you by using cookies, which are little files on your device. I don't send any info about you to a place where the author of this file could see it, to the best of their knowledge. <!-- I make no guarantees beyond that, since I'm just a toy made with Twine and JavaScript by a well-meaning amateur. -->
<br><br>
[[Before we start talking about your future, I have a few serious things that I need to make clear, for the safety and comfort of everybody involved...|Disclaimer]] <!--
This passage is for events that are expected happen at a fixed date, not based on the user's age. This passage should not include certain kinds of information that should only show in the Interests2 passage if the user indicated that they were interested in them in the Interests passage: Stars (eclipses, novas, Halley's comet), space exploration, animals (17-year cicadas and extinctions not due to climate change), travel and landmarks, sports (Olympics), and events only of concern to people living in the USA (social security retirement, presidential elections. This helps keep the output feeling personal and engaging, and not like an impersonal Wikipedia article that could apply to anybody, full of information that potentially seems boring and irrelevant to the user. However, this passage should include global events that concern everybody living on Earth (climate change, dangerous asteroids, world population), and events that concern multiple interests.
-->
<!-- Template
<<set $fixed_event_year to 0000>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
*
<a href=" " target="_blank">Learn more on Wikipedia.</a>
<br>
<</if>>
-->
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2020>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* According to the US Census Bureau, the world population is projected to reach 7.6 billion (7,600,000,000) people. [[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2022>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There will be no more people left who were born in the 19th century (the 1800s), unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2025>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* By this time, the world will send 2.2 billion (2,200,000,000) tons of solid waste to landfills each year, which is a crisis level. [[FutureTimeline.net.|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2025.htm#solid-waste-future-impacts]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2027>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* A kilometer-wide asteriod named (137108) 1999 AN10 will pass about as near to the Earth as the Moon. It is not expected to hit us.
[[Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(137108)_1999_AN10]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2028>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* A kilometer-wide asteroid named (35396) 1997 XF<sub>11</sub> will pass near the Earth. The newest calculations show that there's no risk of it hitting us.
[[Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(35396)_1997_XF11]] Another, smaller asteriod, (153814) 2001 WN<sub>5</sub>, will pass even closer, but there's no risk of it hitting us, either. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(153814)_2001_WN5]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2029>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* The asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass near the Earth. Scientists no longer believe that there could be a risk of it hitting the Earth in 2029.
[[Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* According to projections made in 2017 by the United Nations, our world population is expected to be 8.6 billion (8,600,000,000) by 2030. [[(UN.)|https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/world-population-prospects-the-2017-revision.html]] <<linkreplace "More info about world population.">>For context, our population first hit 1 billion in 1804. Since the industrial revolution, the population has grown more quickly than ever, because infant mortality is lower, and more people are living longer. [[Learn more about the world population at Worldometers.|https://www.worldometers.info/world-population]]<</linkreplace>>
<br>
* Because our world population has grown so much, the UN projects that we'll need 50% more food, 45% more energy, and 30% more water than we did in 2012 in order to meet all our needs.
[[(Reuters.)|https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-development/world-lacks-enough-food-fuel-as-population-soars-u-n-idUSTRE80T10520120130]] The UN has set a "2030 agenda" for sustainable development goals and targets that we all should try to meet by this year [[( UN)|https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld]], and so have the WHO, World Bank, and UNICEF. These include: universal access to basic sanitation; universal literacy; universal Internet access; making it so that no more than 3% of the world's population is in extreme poverty; universal health care in all countries; and taking urgent action against climate change.
<br>
* The futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that we could be able to connect our brains directly to computers as soon as 2030.
[[(CNN, 2015.)|https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/03/technology/ray-kurzweil-predictions]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2032>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the decade of 1900, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2036>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* The asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass near the Earth. Scientists no longer believe that there could be a risk of it hitting us in 2036.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis]]
<br><</if>>
* Even the oldest veterans of World War II will be gone.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2039>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* There is a 1 in a million chance that the kilometer-wide asteriod named (137108) 1999 AN10 could return toward Earth on an impact trajectory, depending on what happens during its previous approach in 2027. This calculation may change as our scientists learn more, and as other factors change.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(137108)_1999_AN10]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2040>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, then the pollen count in 2040 will be twice as much as it was in 2012. This will be hard on people with allergies. People exposed to more pollen will develop the allergy, too.
[[(National Geographic.)|https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/04/160408-pollen-climate-change-allergies-spring-seasons]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2042>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 1910s, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* According to projections made in 2017 by the United Nations, the world population is expected to be 9.8 billion (9,800,000,000) by 2050. [[(UN.)|https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/world-population-prospects-the-2017-revision.html]] <<linkreplace "More info about world population.">>For context, the world population first hit 1 billion in 1804. Since the industrial revolution, our population has grown more quickly than ever, because infant mortality is lower, and more people are living longer. [[Learn more about the world population at Worldometers.|https://www.worldometers.info/world-population]]<</linkreplace>>
<br>
* The Drawdown project estimates that the most effective way to reduce greenhouse gases would be to make sure that women and girls have access to family planning, education, and jobs. Most would then opt for smaller families, which use fewer resources. This would prevent 120 gigatons of greenhouse gases by 2050, which is even more than would be prevented by switching to wind power. Female empowerment can help save the environment. That said, keep in mind that most greenhouse gas emissions are by the richest 10% of the world population. The very wealthy are much more destructive to the Earth than billions of people. [[(Vox, 2017.)|https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/26/16356524/the-population-question]]
* If climate change continues in its current course, by 2050, small alpine glaciers will be gone, and large ones could be 70% smaller. [[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]] Rising sea levels will flood places near water, which will displace 300 million people. Many of those people won't have the money or social connections to help them move away. [[(New Scientist, 2009.)|https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17864-no-rainforest-no-monsoon-get-ready-for-a-warmer-world/?ignored=irrelevant]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2052>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 1920s, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2055>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* According to projections by the United Nations, our world population is expected to be 10 billion (10,000,000,000) by 2055. <<linkreplace "More info about world population.">>For context, our world population first hit 1 billion in 1804. Since the industrial revolution, the population has grown more quickly than ever, because infant mortality is lower, and more people are living longer. [[Learn more about the world population at Worldometers.|https://www.worldometers.info/world-population]]<</linkreplace>> The sociobiologist Edward Wilson of Harvard University estimates that the Earth's resources can only feed about 10 billion people. That's if those resources are used as efficiently as possible. However, population biologist Joel Cohen of Columbia University says so many other factors are involved that we can't estimate what would be the most people the Earth could feed. [[(LiveScience, 2011.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200222091745/https://www.livescience.com/16493-people-planet-earth-support.html]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2059>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* This could be when we will run out of oil. Oil is a non-renewable resource. Once we have taken it out of the Earth and burned it for fuel, there is no more. We will need to have switched to other energy sources, such as wind and solar power. Cars will need to be electric.
[[(FutureTimeline.net)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2059.htm#oil-2050-future-predictions]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2060>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Earth's ozone layer will have recovered from the damage that humans did to it. Certain man-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons had made a hole in the ozone layer since 1920. In 1987, many countries agreed to stop using those chemicals. That has been making it possible for the ozone layer to recover. If we had not stopped using those chemicals, then we would have instead destroyed two thirds of the ozone layer by 2065. We need the ozone layer intact because it helps protect us from ultraviolet rays that damage plants and give people skin cancer.
[[(AP News, 2018.)|https://apnews.com/835094e7af61414981259ed69dbb185e]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2062>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 1930s, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2068>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* The asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass near the Earth. There is a very low risk of it hitting us in 2068. This calculation may change as our scientists learn more, and as other factors change.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2070>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, glaciers will melt. Different places will flood than usual, and droughts will worsen in other places. The droughts will cause increased fire risks and heat waves. Droughts will also make it so that we won't be able to get as much electricity from hydropower.
[[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]] In a best case scenario, temperatures are still likely to rise by 4 °C by 2070. That would mean a rise of up to 15 °C at the North Pole. Summers in the Arctic would be as warm as in California's Napa valley. That means melting ice, and rising sea levels. [[(New Scientist, 2009.)|https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17864-no-rainforest-no-monsoon-get-ready-for-a-warmer-world/?ignored=irrelevant]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2072>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 1940s, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2080>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change proceeds on its current course, sea levels will rise. There's flooding in many places along coasts, rivers, and low-lying places, and those are where 20% of the world's population lives. Meanwhile, due to droughts in other places, other people suffer water shortages and hunger.
[[(Source: LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2082>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 1950s, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2085>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* If climate change proceeds on its current course, then dengue fever will become more of a risk. It could begin to affect 3.5 billion (3,500,000,000) people. That is many more than it used to.
[[(Source: LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2092>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 1960s, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2100>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change proceeds on its current course, the sea level will rise by 2 meters (about 6.6 feet). There will be more carbon dioxide in the air than there has been in 650,000 years. Droughts will cause dust bowls in North America, Europe, Africa, and western Asia. [[(Source: LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]] Crops that depend on monsoons will be disrupted. Due to fires and deforestation, 83% of the Amazon rainforest will be gone. [[(New Scientist, 2009.)|https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17864-no-rainforest-no-monsoon-get-ready-for-a-warmer-world/?ignored=irrelevant]]
<br>
* Our world population is expected to reach 10.9 billion (10,900,000,000) or 11.2 billion (11,200,000,000) by 2100. ([[(Source: UN.)|https://www.un.org/development/desa/publications/world-population-prospects-the-2017-revision.html]] Over half the growth during the past century will be concentrated in nine countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Ehtiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, the USA, Uganda, and Indonesia. [[(Vox, 2018.)|https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/26/16356524/the-population-question]] 40% of the world's population will live in Africa. [[(World Atlas.)|https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/in-2100-40-of-the-world-population-will-be-african.html]] The global fertility rate is expected to be 1.9 births per woman. [[(Pew Research.)|https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/]] That will be the slowest increase that the population had since 1950. After this point, the population won't grow anymore. This is related to how fewer people will die at young ages. [[(Our World In Data.)|https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2102>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 1970s, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2110>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* By this time, we might have the technology to predict exactly when an earthquake will happen. That will make it possible for us to take preventive measures, so that they will do less damage. [[Learn more on FutureTimeline.net.|https://www.futuretimeline.net/22ndcentury/2100-2149.htm#earthquakes]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2112>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 1980s, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2122>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be no more people left who were born in the 20th century, unless if the human lifespan has been increased by advances in medical technology.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2135>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* The potentially hazardous asteriod named 101955 Bennu comes very close to the Earth, but there is no chance of it hitting us. However, during this approach, it could pass through a gravitational keyhole, which could make it more likely to hit us during one of the later times it approaches us. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(101955)_1999_RQ36]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2175>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* There will be a close Earth approach of the potentially hazardous asteriod named 101955 Bennu. There is a 1 in 24,000 chance of it hitting the Earth. This calculation may change as our scientists learn more, and as other factors change. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(101955)_1999_RQ36]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2196>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* There will be a close Earth approach of the potentially hazardous asteriod named 101955 Bennu. There is a 1 in 11,000 chance of it hitting the Earth. This calculation may change as our scientists learn more, and as other factors change. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(101955)_1999_RQ36]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2200>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change proceeds on its current course, then the rising, warming oceans will expand so much that they will change how the Earth rotates. This will cause the length of any day on earth to be 0.12 milliseconds shorter than it used to be.
[[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2880>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_DOOM is false>>
* Asteroid (29075) 1950 DA will make a close approach of the Earth. At most, there is a 1 in 300 chance of it hitting us. This calculation may change as our scientists learn more, and as other factors change. [[Learn more on NASA.|https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/doc/1950da]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>><!--
Debugging notes:
When I test play the most recent version, and enter current year as 2020, birth year 1985. Timeline prints this first:
Error: cannot find a closing tag for macro <<if>>
<<if $user_birth_year lt $current_year>>…
and then prints the entry for 1985.
Now I think I resolved this by simplifying the birth year. Because I'm making everything present tense, it uses far fewer if-statements than it did when I was trying to handle whether the user's birth could have been in the past, present, or future.
After that the output printed 1986 over and over, with this error in it:
Error: cannot find a closing tag for macro <<if>>
<<if $timeline_heading lte (122 + $user_birth_year)>>…
Now I think I resolved this error by creating a missing <</if>> in the friends section.
-->
<!--
In this version, I'm chopping out the whole middle, so it just adds on a year to the user's birth date until they turn 122 years old, and then it stops repeating. No separate entry for "the past" or "this year" or "the future."
-->
<center><h1>A Timeline of Your Life, Past and Future</h1></center><br>
<!--
SECTION ONE: BIRTH YEAR.
This section is for the user's birth year only.
-->
<<set $timeline_heading to $user_birth_year>>
<center><b><<print $timeline_heading>></b></center>
<br>
<<include xYearsInFuture>> <!-- This also tells how many years in the past it was. -->
* You are born.
<br>
<<include Generations>>
<!-- friend 1 -->
<<if $timeline_heading gte $FRIEND_1_BDATE>>
<<if $timeline_heading lte ($FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<!-- The if-statements are so that the friend passage should only be included during the friend's lifespan, not before or after. -->
<<include Friend1AgeEachYear>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<!-- friend 2 -->
<<if $timeline_heading gte $FRIEND_2_BDATE>>
<<if $timeline_heading lte ($FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<include Friend2AgeEachYear>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<br>
<<if $timeline_heading lt $current_year>>
<!-- These passages should only be included in timeline entries about the past. They should include no predictions about the future. -->
<<elseif $timeline_heading gte $current_year>>
<!-- These passages should only be included in predictions of the future, because they might not be accurate about the past, and because they are phrased in future tense. -->
<<include CyclicEvents>>
<<include FixedEvents>>
<<include Interests2>>
<</if>>
<br>
<!--
SECTION TWO: ALL THE REST OF THE USER'S LIFE.
This section is for all the years between the user's birthdate and end of lifespan.
-->
<<set $timeline_heading to ($user_birth_year + 1)>> <!-- For example, 1970 + 1 = 1971 -->
<<repeat 50ms>>
<<if $timeline_heading lte (122 + $user_birth_year)>>
<center><b><<print $timeline_heading>></b></center>
<br>
<<include xYearsInFuture>> <!-- This also tells how many years in the past it was. -->
<<include UserAgeEachYear>> <!-- RetirementAge and AgingEvents passages are included within the UserAgeEachYear passage. -->
<<include CyclicEvents>>
<<include Generations>>
<!-- friend 1 -->
<<if $timeline_heading gte $FRIEND_1_BDATE>>
<<if $timeline_heading lte ($FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<include Friend1AgeEachYear>>
<!-- The if-statements are so that the friend passage should only be included during the friend's lifespan, not before or after. -->
<</if>>
<</if>>
<!-- friend 2 -->
<<if $timeline_heading gte $FRIEND_2_BDATE>>
<<if $timeline_heading lte ($FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<include Friend2AgeEachYear>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<if $timeline_heading lt $current_year>>
<!-- For historical events in the past. -->
<<include FixedEventsPastHistory>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading gte $current_year>>
<!-- Passages that should only be included in predictions of the future, because they might not be accurate about the past. -->
<<include FixedEvents>>
<<include Interests2>>
<<include CyclicEvents>>
<</if>>
<br>
<<set $timeline_heading to ($timeline_heading + 1)>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading gte (123 + $user_birth_year)>>
<<stop>>
<br>
<</if>>
<</repeat>>
<center><b>Legacy</b></center>
The world goes on, and your influence upon it can carry on after you are gone. Think about what influence that might be. There will be people who you've helped learn and grow.
<!-- friend 1 -->
<<if $timeline_heading lt ($FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<!--
This means the friend could still be alive. For example,
2107 lt (1950 + 122 = 2072)
-->
You could be survived by $FRIEND_1,
who could live to be $FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN years old,
in the year <<print $FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN + $FRIEND_1_BDATE>>.
<</if>>
<!-- friend 2 -->
<<if $timeline_heading lt ($FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
You could be survived by $FRIEND_2,
who could live to be $FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN years old,
in the year <<print $FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN + $FRIEND_2_BDATE>>.
<</if>>
Maybe you've helped put new things into the world, like books you've written, art you've made, social changes you helped, and organizations you built. These lasting things can all be part of your life plans, too, not just things that happen during your own life.
<br><br>
You can show your appreciation for the creator of this wizard by buying Orion Scribner [[a coffee|http://ko-fi.com/frameacloud]] or subscribing to their [[Patreon|http://patreon.com/frameacloud]]. I hope this timeline meant a lot to you, and I hope you have an inspiring year!
<!--
A feature to add: Legacy timeline.
In a more ambitious, deep-time version of this program, I want to instead repeat until no variable events found matching any years (indicating utmost life expectancy of the user, AND of their loved ones, AND of any legacy and unfinished business that could outlive them.)
Another feature to add: Manual entries.
At the end of each year's entry, there should be a link where the user can click to write a note about their own plans and predictions for that year. Then, when they've written it and hit enter, they'll return to the output screen, with that added in. They can repeat that with as many years as they like. How will I handle the variables for that?
--><!-- This passage is for events that will happen on dates that vary based on user input, such as the user's life expectancy, fertility, menopause/andropause, and so on. -->
<!-- Fertility and hormonal events -->
<<if $MENSTRUATION is true>><<include Menstruation>><</if>>
<<if $PREGNANCYPOSSIBLE is true>><<include PregnancyPossible>><</if>>
<<if $SIRE is true>><<include Sire>><</if>>
<<if $TESTOSTERONE is true>><<include Testosterone>><</if>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq (10 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are age 10 to 19, you're called a denarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (12 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are age 10 to 12, you're called a tween.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (13 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are age 13 to 19, you're called a teenager.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (20 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are in your twenties, you're called a vicenarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (30 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are in your thirties, you're called a tricenarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (40 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are in your forties, you're called a quadragenarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (50 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are in your fifties, you're called a quinquagenarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (60 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are in your sixties, you're called a sexagenarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (70 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are in your seventies, you're called a septuagenarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (80 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are in your eighties, you're called an octogenarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (90 + $user_birth_year)>>
* When you are in your nineties, you're called a nonagenarian.<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading gte 100 + $user_birth_year>><<include Over100>><</if>><!-- This passage is for events that recur cyclically, such as tetanus shots every 10 years. Leap year and the US presidential elections are in the USA passage instead. Emergences of cicadas every 17 years are in the Animals passage instead. -->
<!--
10 year tetanus shot boosters.
The variable $TETANUS was set in the Tetanus passage.
-->
<<if $timeline_heading gt $TETANUS>>
<<set $TETANUS to $TETANUS + 10>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq $TETANUS>>
* Time to get your tetanus booster shot. You need this vaccine every 10 years in order to stay protected.
<br>
<<set $TETANUS to $TETANUS + 10>>
<</if>>
<center><h2>When were you born?</h2></center> <br>
<<if $current_year lt new Date().getFullYear()>>
Okay, we're pretending that this is in the past. Just so you know, I give fewer predictions about events earlier than 2019, since I was created to predict events after that. I'll still give it a try, though!
<br><br>
<</if>>
<<if $current_year gt new Date().getFullYear()>>
Okay, we're pretending that this is in the future. Just so you know, I give fewer predictions about events that are later than the year 2100, because I was created in 2020. I'll still give it a try, though!
<br><br>
<</if>>
<<if $current_year eq new Date().getFullYear()>>
Okay, it's $current_year.
<br><br>
<</if>>
Tell me about yourself. This is so that I can compare some facts about your own history with that of other people in your demographic, in order to make statistically likely predictions about your personal future. <br><br>
What year were you born? Please type the year, and then press "enter."<br>
<<textbox "$user_birth_year" 1970 [[VerifyBirthYear]] autofocus>><center><h2>What year is this?</h2></center> <br>
Please type the year that you want to pretend is the current year, and then press "enter."<br>
<<textbox "$current_year" 1970 [[AskBirthYear]] autofocus>><!-- This passage is only about the user either aging yearly, or approaching their birth. Don't rearrange any sections! They're in this order for a reason, and it took me 8 hours of work to get it just right! ...And now on 2020-12-30, version 0.9.01, I'm changing everything to present tense. I'm getting rid of most flavor text. In later versions, I would like to add the flavor text back in, in which case, I should copy it from earlier versions. Some of these if-statements will probably never be used, in the current version of the output, but I'm retaining them to prevent anything from breaking in interesting ways.
-->
<<if $user_birth_year eq $timeline_heading>>
<!-- User's birth year exactly matches the year -->
* This is the year that you are born.
<br>
<<elseif ($user_birth_year - 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
User's birth year, minus one, matches the year.
User will be born exactly one year in the future.
For example, if user is born in 2025, and the year is 1 year earlier, 2024.
-->
* One more year until you are born.
<br>
<<elseif ($user_birth_year + 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
User's birth year, plus 1 year, exactly matches the year.
User was born exactly one year in the past.
For example, user was born in 2025, and this is one year later, 2026.
-->
* You turn one year old.
<br>
<<elseif ($user_birth_year - 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
User's birth year, minus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
User has 2 years until they will be born.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 - 2 = 2023 eq 2027? False, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 - 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the user was born 2 years ago, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($user_birth_year + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "user was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* Two more years until you are born.
<br>
<<elseif ($user_birth_year + 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
User's birth year, plus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
User was born exactly 2 years ago.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 + 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 + 2 = 2031 eq 2027? False, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the user will be born 2 years in the future, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($user_birth_year + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "user was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* You turn two years old.
<br>
<<elseif ($user_birth_year + 2) gt $timeline_heading>>
<!--
User was born at least or exactly two years in the future.
User's birth year, plus 2 years, is greater than (BUT NOT EQUAL TO, which would introduce a glitch) the timeline heading.
-->
*
<<print $user_birth_year - $timeline_heading>>
more years until you are born.
<br>
<<else>>
<!--
This is for the user aging yearly. I have omitted most flavor text in this simplified present-tense-only version, to avoid chronologically inappropriate remarks, such as telling a 3-year-old not to drink and drive, or saying "if you don't die" about events in the past.
It's important to evaluate whether the user was born in the future before we evaluate this if-statement, or else this if-statement will manage to apply to future birthdates, resulting in glitchy phrasings.
-->
* You
<<print either (
"turn",
"become",
"are",
"reach")>>
<<print $timeline_heading - $user_birth_year>><<print either (
" years old",
" years",
" in age",
" of age",
" in this year",
"")>><<print either
(".", ".", ".", "<nowiki>!</nowiki>", "...")>>
<br>
<<include AgingEvents>>
<<if $USA is true>>
<<if ($user_birth_year + 21) lte $timeline_heading>>
<!-- This is so that RetirementAge only shows if the user is age 21 and up. -->
<<include RetirementAge>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<</if>><!-- This passage is about nothing but retirement age. It is included in the UserAgeEachYear passage, so that it only displays if the user is over 21, and only if the user said in the Interests passage that they're interested in the USA. -->
<<if $timeline_heading lt $user_retirement_year>>
* You'll reach retirement age in
<<print $user_retirement_year - $timeline_heading>>
years.
<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (62 + $user_birth_year)>>
* In the US, this is the earliest age you are allowed to start receiving Social Security benefits. However, they would be reduced until you reach full retirement age.
<a href="https://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/ageincrease.html" target="_blank">Learn more.</a>
<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq $user_retirement_year>>
* This is when you reach full retirement age. In the US, that means the age by which you are allowed to receive full Social Security retirement benefits.
<a href="https://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/ageincrease.html" target="_blank">Learn more.</a>
<br>
<</if>><!-- setting retirement year variable in the beginning: -->
<<if $user_birth_year gt 1959>>
<<set $user_retirement_year to 67 + $user_birth_year>>
<<elseif $user_birth_year lte 1942>>
<<set $user_retirement_year to 65 + $user_birth_year>>
<<elseif $user_birth_year gte 1943>>
<<if $user_birth_year lt 1959>>
<<set $user_retirement_year to 66 + $user_birth_year>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<!-- end retirement year setting -->
<!-- Setting some more variables: -->
<<set $US_Presidential_Election to 2020>>
<<set $cicadas to 2021>>
<center>[[Now I'll write a timeline of your life, including predictions for your future.|Output]]</center><center><h2>Some personal questions</h2></center> <br>
Excuse me, this part's nosy, but it's also about stuff that is very important in most people's lives. What kind of role do you see yourself in, as a parent, and as an expression of your gender? Which of these things apply to you, AND that you would feel comfortable with seeing predictions about? Put a checkmark in as many boxes as you want. Or check none at all, if you'd rather not think about this stuff right now, so I'll respectfully leave this topic alone.
<br><br>
<label><<checkbox "$PREGNANCYPOSSIBLE" false true>> I am (or will be, or could be) someone who is able to become pregnant. I would like to see predictions about having a baby.</label>
<br>
<label><<checkbox "$SIRE" false true>>I am (or will be) someone who is able to get other people pregnant. I would like to see predictions about having a baby with them.</label>
<br>
<label><<checkbox "$TESTOSTERONE" false true>>I am (or will be) someone who has a hormone balance with more testosterone than estrogen. <<linkreplace "(info)">>Everyone's body has some of each of the sex hormones, testosterone <i>and</i> estrogen. If people usually look at you and think of you as a man, then you probably have more testosterone than estrogen, but that's not a hard rule. If you take testosterone as a medicine, then check this box.<</linkreplace>></label>
<br>
<label><<checkbox "$MENSTRUATION" false true>> I am (or will be) someone who has a menstrual cycle... and/or I have a hormone balance with more estrogen than testosterone. I would like to see predictions about menstrual cycles and menopause. <<linkreplace "(info)">>Everyone's body has some of each of the sex hormones, testosterone <i>and</i> estrogen. If people usually look at you and think of you as a woman, then you probably have more estrogen than testosterone, but that's not a hard rule. Having a lot of estrogen also means that you have a menstrual cycle. Even if you have certain health conditions that make it so that you don't bleed during your period, your hormone balance still fluctuates during your monthly cycle. If you take estrogen as a medicine, then check this box.<</linkreplace>></label>
<br><br>
After you've chosen as many as apply to you (or none at all, if you'd rather skip it), then [[let's move on.|Interests]]<center><h2>Tetanus shots</h2></center> <br>
Every person is supposed to get a tetanus booster shot every 10 years. Tetanus bacteria is everywhere in nature, so before the vaccine, it was common for people to die from tetanus infections. The vaccine prevents it. It's best to have the vaccine regularly, instead of last-minute, after you think you've been exposed to the bacteria. If you like, when I make a timeline of your future, I could put a reminder for each year that you would get a shot, so that you won't forget. <BR><BR>
When was the last time you had a tetanus shot? If you don't remember, then go find out right now, before you continue!<BR>
<ul>
<li>
[[I found out! The year that I got my last tetanus shot was...|TetanusYear]] </li>
<li>
[[I tried, but I couldn't find out when I last had a tetanus shot. Maybe I never had one.|TetanusUnknown]]
</li>
<li>
[[My doctor tells me I have health conditions that make it so I can't get tetanus shots.|TetanusCannot]]
</li>
<<if ($current_year - $user_birth_year) lte 19>>
<li>
[[My parents or guardians don't want me to get vaccines, because they believe those could give me autism.|TetanusAnti]]
</li>
<</if>>
<li>
[[I just want to skip this question.|TetanusSkip]]
</li>
</ul><center><h2>Tetanus shots</h2></center> <br>
<!-- This changes the TETANUS year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $TETANUS to parseInt($TETANUS)>>
Good for you! You were able to find out that the last year you had a tetanus shot was in <<print $TETANUS>>.
<<if $TETANUS gte ($current_year - 10)>>
My predictions will include reminders to get a booster shot
every ten years after that.
<<else>>
It's been more than ten years since you had your last tetanus shot.
I'm going to give you a reminder to get one next year,
and then every ten years after that. You need to have them regularly.
<</if>>
<br><br>
<<if $CW_SEX_ED is false>>
[[Next.|Nosy]]
<<else>>
[[Next.|Interests]]
<</if>><!--
Life Timeliner Version 01.01.02 was created on 2021-01-22.
Some changes I made a while before this version:
- I changed the output so it starts with the year of the user's birth.
- I got rid of the flavor text about aging.
- I fixed a bunch of errors in the output passage that stopped the timeline from incrementing its years properly at all.
- Friend1 and Friend2 are now present tense.
- I decided it looked ugly how the Generations passage printed the same block of text every year for about two decades. I changed it so that information about a generation only prints at the start of the generation. I also added a sentence or two about past generations.
- I made sure that predictions for the future don't show for past dates.
- Changing everything to present tense (except perhaps the actual predictions for the future). That's simpler than coding it so that it will adjust grammatical tense for past and future. I tried to create separate statements and passages for different tenses, but it became excessively convoluted, and it doesn't need to be like that to create a satisfactory timeline.
Some changes I made in this file (or immediately before it):
- I created a passage for showing past historical events in the timeline. It's just a start, with about one entry per year. It censors entries based on the content warnings.
- Renamed the program file to LifeTimeliner
- Added some stuff to the future animals interest passage. Most timeline entries about animals approaching extinction now end on a positive note about conservation efforts.
Actual errors which need to be fixed next:
- none known :)
Possible errors to test for:
- Now that I don't use separate passages for the past and future for friend1 and friend2, does that cause any problems with other passages pointing toward a friend passage that is no longer used?
- Are there any errors with animal friends?
Neither fixing errors nor gilding the lily:
- Currently, the biggest problem with this game is that it's depressing, because it's unavoidably about mortality and climate change. One player said it decreased their will to live, and another player said they didn't like the idea of living for so many more decades. I want to redesign everything I can so the game inspires players to live as long as they can, and to do as much as they can to fight climate change. I want this game to be so uplifting that even somebody who wanted to die would start looking forward to the future and feeling like they have a sense of agency in it. I want it to inspire working toward a solarpunk transhuman future.
- For each timeline item about the Holocene extinction, climate change, or other forms of accelerated entropy, add something about efforts to mitigate the damage, such as conservation and climate action.
- Add a link to a list of crisis hotlines at the end.
- Add more historical events for past dates that can be filtered by nationality and interest.
Extra gilding of the lily, changes that would be nice to make next, but not needed for basic functioning:
- Make the sidebar prettier
- Tell what the ages are for each generation every few years.
- I could even add historical events for past dates that are filtered for different interests and nationalities, but that would be a LOT of extra work, and might not tell the user anything they don't already know.
- Formatting: I could fix a formatting error where some interests that have an <<if>> statement on the same line as the * will render as an actual bullet instead of a *. Inserting a return will fix it. Hmm... or maybe I should change ALL predictions so that they render with actual bullets instead?? That would be prettier, but would it cause more problems?
- Friends: I'd like to make it so that the user could add as many friends as they like, but I don't want to have to manually create a variable for each one, like $FRIEND_3, $FRIEND_4, and so on. Maybe there is a way to automate that process.
- Aging: I wanted to use CWs to control whether the morbid flavor text displays for aging, and conditional statements so the morbid flavor text only shows in future predictions. I tried it, but it gave an error message. I guess you can't put if-statements inside an either-statement like that. I wonder how to solve this problem. For now, I'm just getting rid of the morbid flavor text until I can figure out a more complicated array solution.
--><!-- This passage should only be included if $MENSTRUATION is true-->
<<if $timeline_heading eq (10 + $user_birth_year)>>
* For young people who have a hormone balance with higher estrogen than testosterone, their first menstrual cycle usually happens between age 10 and 16. (Note that any person whose hormone balance has higher estrogen than testosterone usually has a menstrual cycle. This is true even if they don't bleed during their period, such as if they don't have a uterus, or if they have other health conditions.) The first period is called [[menarche|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menarche]], and it is one of many landmarks of puberty. Menarche does not really mean that someone has become an adult, since it almost always happens during childhood. The age that a person reaches menarche depends on their health, diet, and ethnicity. If a child does not want to have a period yet, or had one earlier than they want to, or does not want their body to develop in a feminine way, then they can postpone or temporarily pause puberty by going on a type of medicine called a [[puberty blocker|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_blocker]].
<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (16 + $user_birth_year)>>
* This is the upper age range for getting one's first period ([[menarche|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menarche]]). If someone has not had their first period yet by age 16, and expects that they should be able to have one, then they need to see a doctor to find out why it didn't happen. It could be a sign of a health problem or a natural physical difference.
<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (20 + $user_birth_year)>>
* It's common for adolescents to have an irregular menstrual cycle. After age 20, one's cycle tends to become more regular. That means it becomes easier to predict when one's cycle will start each month, just by counting off calendar days. However, menstrual cycles and menopause are unique to each person, so your own timing and experience could be different.
<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (45 + $user_birth_year)>>
* 45 is around when most people with menstrual cycles start to enter perimenopause. That's a phase of one's life where one's body is preparing for menopause. It's common for one's cycle to become irregular after this. However, menstrual cycles and menopause are unique to each person, so your own timing and experience could be different.
<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (51 + $user_birth_year)>>
* The average age of menopause is 51 (which is <<print $timeline_heading - $current_year>> years in your future), but it could happen at a different age than that for you. The main predictor for your menopause is the age at which your parent reached menopause. Other factors can affect it, such as ethnicity, smoking habits, and certain health issues. The age you went through puberty doesn't help predict age of menopause.
[[Learn more about how to predict your age of menopause on WebMD.|https://www.webmd.com/menopause/features/menopause-age-prediction]]
<br>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (58 + $user_birth_year)>>
* The upper age range for menopause is 58.
<br>
<</if>><!-- This passage should only be included if $PREGNANCYPOSSIBLE is true-->
<<if $timeline_heading eq 35 + $user_birth_year>>
* Since you're somebody who is able to get pregnant: pregnancies after the mid-thirties are considered high risk. It's still possible to get pregnant for as long as one has a menstrual cycle, but the pregnancy is more likely to involve a variety of kinds of health risks for the parent and the baby. These risks are thought to happen due to normal hormonal changes that happen during this phase of an adult's life. Because of this, people who want to give birth try to plan it for before age 35.
[[Learn more at the Mayo Clinic.|https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/in-depth/pregnancy/art-20045756]]
<br>
<</if>><!-- This passage should only be included if $SIRE is true-->
<<if $timeline_heading eq (40 + $user_birth_year)>>
* Since you're somebody who is able to get other people pregnant: studies show that once you're over 40, there is a small risk that offspring that you conceive could be more likely to have certain health problems. Because of this, people who want to get their partners pregnant try to plan it for before reaching this age.
[[Learn more at the Mayo Clinic.|https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/expert-answers/paternal-age/faq-20057873]]
<br>
<</if>>
<center><h2>Tetanus shots</h2></center> <br>
Type the year you last had the shot into the text box below. Then hit enter. <BR><BR>
<<textbox "$TETANUS" 1970 [[Tetanus2]] autofocus>><center><h2>Tetanus shots</h2></center> <br>
<<set $TETANUS to $current_year + 1>>
You weren't able to find out when you had your last tetanus shot, but you suggest you don't have any reason to not get one.<br><br>
I'm going to assume that it's been longer than 10 years since your last tetanus shot. For this reason, I'm going to assume that you're going to make arrangements to get your next tetanus shot next year, in <<print $TETANUS>>. Then I'm going to remind you when to get it every ten years after that.
<<if $CW_SEX_ED is false>>
[[Okay.|Nosy]]
<<else>>
[[Okay.|Interests]]
<</if>><center><h2>Tetanus shots</h2></center> <br>
You're not able to get any tetanus shots? That's hard. Take care of yourself. I won't give you any reminders about when you would get booster shots, then, since that doesn't apply to you.
<<if $CW_SEX_ED is false>>
[[Next.|Nosy]]
<<else>>
[[Next.|Interests]]
<</if>><!-- This passage should only be included if $TESTOSTERONE is true-->
<!-- Andropause -->
<<if $timeline_heading eq 40 + $user_birth_year>>
* If male menopause (andropause) could be applicable to you in some way, at this point in your life: we don't know much about how to predict when these hormonal changes might happen. It tends to be a slow change, over the ages of about 40 to 70, as your body gradually produces less testosterone. [[Learn more about male menopause on WebMD.|https://www.webmd.com/men/guide/male-menopause]]
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<<elseif $timeline_heading eq 70 + $user_birth_year>>
* If male menopause (andropause) could be applicable to you in some way, at this point in your life: we don't know much about how to predict when these hormonal changes might happen. It tends to be a slow change, over the ages of about 40 to 70, as your body gradually produces less testosterone. [[Learn more about male menopause on WebMD.|https://www.webmd.com/men/guide/male-menopause]]
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<</if>><!-- This passage will display within the AgingEvents passage, if the user's age is greater than or equal to 100. -->
<<if $timeline_heading eq (100 + $user_birth_year)>>
* A person who lives to be at least 100 is called a centenarian. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian" target="_blank">Learn more on Wikipedia.</a>
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<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (110 + $user_birth_year)>>
* A person who lives to be at least 110 is called a supercentenarian. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercentenarian" target="_blank">Learn more on Wikipedia.</a>
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<<elseif $timeline_heading eq 116 + $user_birth_year>>
* The oldest man whose age was verified by modern methods was [[Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013)|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura]] from Japan, who lived to 116. He said he lived so long because he got up early, lived an active and healthy lifestyle, and ate traditional food in small portions. It's much more common for women to live to be over 100 than men, and we aren't sure why. There are a lot of other variables involved in why men tend to have a life expectancy about 6 years shorter than that of women, all around. Most doctors think the difference is probably because of hormones increasing certain health risks, but there is more to the picture than that. Maybe our culture encourages more men to have unhealthy habits<<if $CW_INTOXICANTS is false>>, like smoking<</if>>. Or maybe more men work in dangerous jobs. (If that's it, then labor unions could help increase men's life expectancy.) What looks like a shorter average life expectancy could even be due to averaging statistics that include many men who died young in the military during wars. [[Learn about some of the possible reasons for why men's lives tend to be shorter, on WebMD.|https://www.webmd.com/men/features/why-mens-lives-are-shorter-than-women]]
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<<elseif $timeline_heading eq 119 + $user_birth_year>>
* The oldest person whose age is fully verified by modern methods, and isn't disputed, was [[Sarah Knauss (1880-1999)|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Knauss]] from the USA, who lived to 119. She believed she lived so long because she had a very calm attitude, and never let anything upset her.
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<<elseif $timeline_heading eq 122 + $user_birth_year>>
* The oldest person whose age has been independently verified by modern methods was [[Jeanne Calment (1875-1997)|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment]] from France, who lived to 122. She believed she lived so long because she had an elaborate daily routine that she thought of as healthy. Not all of it sounds so healthy, though. <<if $CW_INTOXICANTS is false>>Surprisingly, she drank a little red wine and smoked a cigarette each day of her life.<</if>> You would think that only people with healthy habits and genes for longevity could live to be over 100. However, it even happens for people who had unhealthy habits, and whose family had short lives. It's a mystery why some people live to be over 100. It could even just be their attitude. Maybe even you could become a super-centenarian! One of the most important things to make that possible is to take action on climate change, in order for us to have a world we can grow old in. Do some journaling and talk to some friends about what else you think needs to happen in order for you to live longer, in a better future.
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<</if>><center><h2>Your interests</h2></center> <br>
Which of these things are interesting to you? Put a checkmark in as many boxes as you want. Then I'll make sure to include predictions about those things. This will help my predictions about your future feel relevant to you.
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_ANIMALS" false true>> Animals</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_ARTS" false true>> The arts and entertainment</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_CLOTHING" false true>> Clothing and wearable technology</label>
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<<if $CW_SEX_ED is false>>
<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_FAMILYPLAN" false true>> Family planning </label>
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<<if $CW_FOOD is false>>
<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_FOOD" false true>> Food and drink </label>
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<</if>>
<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_HEALTH" false true>> Health, new treatments for illnesses</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_HISTORY" false true>> History and time capsules</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_DISABILITY" false true>> The issues and rights of people who are disabled, neurodivergent, chronically ill, and/or mentally ill</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_LGBT" false true>> The issues and rights of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and intersex. </label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_POC" false true>> The issues and rights of people of color (POC) and members of ethnic minority groups</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_WOMEN" false true>> The issues and rights of women</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_PLANTS" false true>> Plants and forests</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_SPACE_EXPLORATION" false true>> Space exploration</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_SPORTS" false true>> Sports</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_STARS" false true>> Stargazing and eclipses</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_TRAVEL" false true>> Travel, transportation, and landmarks</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$INTEREST_WORK" false true>> Workplaces, business, and the job market</label>
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After you've put checkmarks in as many boxes as apply, click this: [[Next.|Countries]]<!--
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<<if $INTEREST_ARTS is true>><<include Arts>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is true>><<include Animals>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_CLOTHING is true>><<include Clothing>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_FAMILYPLAN is true>><<include InterestFamilyPlan>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_HEALTH is true>><<include InterestHealth>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_HISTORY is true>><<include History>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_DISABILITY is true>><<include Disability>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_LGBT is true>><<include LGBT>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_POC is true>><<include POC>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_RELIGION is true>><<include Religion>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_SPACE_EXPLORATION is true>><<include SpaceExploration>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_SPORTS is true>><<include Sports>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_STARS is true>><<include Stars>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_TRAVEL is true>><<include Travel>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_WOMEN is true>><<include InterestWomen>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_WORK is true>><<include InterestWork>><</if>>
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<<if $INTEREST_AUSTRALIA is true>><<include Australia>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_CANADA is true>><<include Canada>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_FRANCE is true>><<include France>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_GERMANY is true>><<include Germany>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_INDIA is true>><<include India>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_JAPAN is true>><<include Japan>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_MEXICO is true>><<include Mexico>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_SOUTHAFRICA is true>><<include SouthAfrica>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_UK is true>><<include UK>><</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_USA is true>><<include USA>><</if>><!--
This passage is included in the Interests2 passage, if the user said they were interested in $INTEREST_STARS in the Interests passage.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2022>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A collision of the contact binary star system KIC 9832227 will result in a luminous red nova, briefly creating one of the brightest objects in the night sky. These stars are about 1,940 light years away (meaning 11.4 quadrillion miles). That means it actually went nova a very long time ago, and it will have taken all this time for the light to reach you. You'll be able to see the nova with the naked eye for a month, in the constellation Cygnus, the swan. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_9832227]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2024>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* You can see a lunar eclipse in the Americas.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2024_lunar_eclipse]]
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* You can see a total solar eclipse in North America.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2026>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* You can see a solar eclipse in Europe.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2026]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2028>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* You can experience a total solar eclipse in Australia and New Zealand.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2028]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* You can see a total solar eclipse in southern Africa and Australia.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_November_25,_2030]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2038>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* You can see a total solar eclipse in Australia and New Zealand.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2042>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A total solar eclipse. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_20,_2042]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, pollution could get so bad that observatories on the ground won't be usable for astronomy anymore. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4755996.stm]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2060>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A total solar eclipse.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_30,_2060
]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2061>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The orbit of Halley's Comet will bring it near enough that you can see it from Earth, as it does every 74 to 79 years. We have records of this cycle going back to 240 BCE. Usually people think it's bad luck, but it's never done us any harm. The last time Halley's Comet visited us was in 1986. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2078>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A total solar eclipse.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_11,_2078
]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2096>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A total solar eclipse.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_22,_2096
]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2114>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A total solar eclipse.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_3,_2114
]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2132>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A total solar eclipse.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_13,_2132
]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2134>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The orbit of Halley's Comet brings it near enough that you can see it from Earth, as it does every 74 to 79 years. We have records of this cycle going back to 240 BCE. Usually people think it's bad luck, but it's never done us any harm. The last time it visited us was in 2061. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2150>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A total solar eclipse.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_25,_2150
]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2168>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A total solar eclipse.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_5,_2168
]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2186>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There will be a total solar eclipse that will last for 7 minutes and 29 seconds. This makes it the longest total solar eclipse that will happen during this 10,000 year period. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_16,_2186]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 3000>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Gamma Cephei will become the new north star from the perspective of Earth. [[Learn more from the University of Oxford, Department of Physics.|https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blog/2012/03/08/what-can-you-see-in-the-night-sky-this-week-polaris]]
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<</if>><!--
This passage is included in the Interests2 passage, if the user said they were interested in $INTEREST_ANIMALS in the Interests passage. This Animals passage includes a cyclic event: the emergence of 17-year cicadas, which is also in the USA passage.
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17-year cicadas, first in 2021, then 2038.
Beware: the variable was set in the PrepForOutput passage.
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<<if $INTEREST_USA is true>>
<<if $timeline_heading gt $cicadas>>
<<set $cicadas to $cicadas + 17>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq $cicadas>>
* <<linkappend "In the eastern US, the largest brood of periodical cicadas emerge." t8n>> This is the Great Eastern Brood, also called Brood X. They all hibernated underground as juveniles for the past 17 years. Now, the swarm of adults grow up and come above ground for just a few weeks to party. This is when they sing, mate, and complete their life cycles. Cicadas synchronize their life cycles like this and do everything in unison with one another to make it harder for other animals to eat them. [[Learn more about them on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_X]]<</linkappend>>
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<<set $cicadas to $cicadas + 17>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_CANADA is true>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2021>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Canada has declared that by this year, it will be illegal to keep dolphins and whales in captivity.
[[(ABC, 2019.)
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https://abcnews.go.com/International/canada-passes-free-willy-ban-making-illegal-hold/story?id=63629278]]
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<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2023>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_USA is true>>
* The state of California was the first in the US to ban the sale of products made of fur. That law will go into effect in 2023. (Some products are exempt, such as leather, and materials used by Native Americans.) This could lead to other states banning fur as well. It will have an effect on the fashion trends of the decade. [[(CNN, 2019.)|https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/us/california-bans-fur-products-trnd/index.html]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2026>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_FOOD is false>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* The African penguin (<i>Spheniscus demersus</i>) is expected to go extinct in the wild, if its population decline isn't stopped. They're endangered due to oil spills, competition from fisheries, and people taking their eggs as a delicacy. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_penguin#Conservation_status]] You can support [[The African Penguin Nest Project|https://www.savingpenguins.org]], which is working to save them by rebuilding their damaged nesting grounds.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2029>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* Madagascar's radiated tortoise will go extinct in the wild. This is due to poaching and loss of habitat. [[(Science 2.0, 2010.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230190458/https://www.science20.com/news_articles/madagascars_radiated_tortoise_could_disappear_2030]] [[Learn about organizations working to save the tortoises.|https://turtlesurvival.org/fine-tuning-the-strategy-to-save-madagascars-iconic-radiated-tortoise]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* Between 2025 and 2030, many kinds of animals in Britain will go extinct in the wild. This includes hedgehogs, red squirrels, cuckoos, Scottish wildcats, natterjack toads, red-necked phalaropes, woodland grouse, and turtledoves. This will happen because humans are destroying these animals' habitats through pollution, pesticides, and farming. [[(FutureTimeline.net, 2011.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200213052950/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2025.htm]]
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<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* If climate change proceeds on its current course, 18% of the world's coral reefs will have died. Also, the Arctic Sea won't have any ice in the summer. [[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2032>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* The leatherback sea turtle will approach extinction. This is because humans introduced animals to the beaches that eat the turtles' eggs. Turtles die from trying to eat lost balloons and other plastic trash floating in the water that they mistake for jellyfish. [[(University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2013.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200415215521/https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/3216-uab-research-says-2000-pound-turtle-could-be-extinct-within-20-years]] You can help save the turtles by [[pledging to never buy balloons|https://act.seaturtles.org/page/5300/petition]], and by supporting the [[Turtle Island Restoration Network|https://seaturtles.org/campaigns/save-leatherbacks-from-extinction]]'s fight for laws to protect turtles from bad fishing practices and pollution.
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<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* Most of the 90 million ash trees in Britain will be killed by a fungal disease. The highly contagious fungus, ash dieback, was accidentally brought to Britain in 2012. It is thought that there is nothing anybody can do to stop its spread. Many animals in the British ecosystem depend upon ash tree forests. Losing the ash will cause us to lose many birds, too.
[[(FutureTimeline.net)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2032.htm#ashdieback]] Scientists discovered that some ash trees have a natural resistance to the fungus, so the scientists are trying to breed more resistant ash trees, and bank their seeds for later [[(BBC)|https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50420207]].
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2034>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, the Caribbean coral reefs will be in danger of being wiped out. This is also caused by pollution from runoff, and harmful fishing practices. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200103055007/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2034.htm]] You can help protect the reefs by [[lots of small actions, such as avoiding fertilizers that pollute the runoff|https://www.epa.gov/coral-reefs/what-you-can-do-help-protect-coral-reefs]], or by supporting [[the Nature Conservancy's efforts to save them|https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/caribbean/stories-in-caribbean/caribbean-a-revolution-in-coral-conservation]].
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2035>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Lion populations in Africa will have declined by half. This is due to poaching of the lions and of the prey that the lions would eat. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200302115958/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2035.htm]] You can learn more about the plight of the lions, and how they might be saved, in the book <i>Lion Hearted: The Life and Death of Cecil & the Future of Africa's Iconic Cats</i>, by Andrew Loveridge. You can help save the lions by supporting [[Panthera's Project Leonardo, which you can learn about in National Geographic|https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2015/08/05/how-to-save-the-lions]].
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2036>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* Most of the 103 species of lemurs will be on the brink of extinction. This is due to deforestation from mining and farming. [[(Telegraph, 2013.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230191030/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/madagascar/10252191/Furry-lemurs-could-be-wiped-out-within-20-years.html]]
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<<if $CW_FOOD is false>>
* Lab-grown meat will become a mature industry. This is a process that grows meat for food from cell cultures. It will be realistic and affordable for the public, and can be made without any animal suffering. Farming animals for meat will become less common. [[(The Guardian, 2013.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230191015/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/05/the-future-of-food]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2039>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* The koala will face extinction. This is due to disease and habitat loss. [[(Telegraph, 2009.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230191429/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6537179/Koalas-extinct-within-30-years-after-chlamydia-outbreak.html]] You can help save the koala through the [[Australian Koala Foundation, where you can "adopt" a koala or a tree.|https://www.savethekoala.com/]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2042>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* Most primate species will disappear from the wild. This will include great apes such as gorillas, lesser apes such as gibbons, and monkeys. [[(NewScientist, 2017.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230235012/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118359-majority-of-primate-species-may-vanish-in-next-25-to-50-years/]] You can help save the gorillas through [[the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.|https://gorillafund.org]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2048>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* King crabs began entering the warming Antarctic in 2003. If climate change continues in its current course, king crabs will spread there much more, badly disrupting the ecosystem by eating too many other animals. [[(FutureTimeline, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200101082143/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2048.htm]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2049>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* By this year, many species will go extinct in the wild all over the world, as part of the Holocene extinction event caused by humans. Europe will lose 50% of amphibian species, 20% of birds, and 15% of plants. In other parts of the world, the Indian elephant will near extinction, and 70% of polar bears will be gone. [[(FutureTimeline, 2014.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231043321/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2045.htm]] One of many organizations fighting this is [[Save The Elephants|https://www.savetheelephants.org]].
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, most fish will be almost a quarter smaller in size than they used to be. This will happen all over the world, but especially in the tropics. [[(Nature, 2012.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200222005556/https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1691]] <<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>Most coral reefs will have died, due to the ocean turning acid. At least 400 species of birds will have gone extinct, or close to it. [[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]<</if>>
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* There will be more plastic in the world's oceans than fish. [[(BBC.)|https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35562253]] [[(Washington Post.)|https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/20/by-2050-there-will-be-more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-worlds-oceans-study-says/]][[(UN.)|https://news.un.org/en/story/2017/04/556132-feature-uns-mission-keep-plastics-out-oceans-and-marine-life]] Nearly every seabird will eat plastic. [[(Science Magazine.)|https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/nearly-every-seabird-may-be-eating-plastic-2050]]
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* Leadbeater's opossum (also known as the fairy opossum) will be going extinct in the wild. This is due to climate change causing more forest fires in Australia. [[(The Guardian, 2014.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231033706/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/07/leadbeaters-possum-habitat-almost-certain-to-collapse-due-to-logging-fires]]
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* Australia is getting too hot even for small lizards. The Adelaide pygmy blue-tongue skink was thought to have gone extinct due to farming. In 1992, people found out the blue-tongues still live. However, if climate change continues on its current course, the rising temperatures will make them go extinct by 2070. Researchers are working to save them by moving some of them to a cooler habitat some kilometers away ([[ABC|https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-26/pygmy-blue-tongue-lizard-relocation-and-400k-research-grant/11893192]]).
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* If climate change continues in its current course, there will be changes in where different kinds of birds live in North America. This is also due to changes in how humans use the land. Some kinds of birds will increase their habitat range, so that we will see them in places we didn't before. That will happen with Gambel's quail, cactus wrens, and scissor-tailed flycatchers. Other birds will lose range due to habitat loss, such as baltimore orioles, common pelicans, and common loons. The bald eagle in particular will lose 75% of its range. [[(The Guardian, 2014.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230183542/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/north-america-birds-extinction-study-climate-change]] [[The American Eagle Foundation|https://www.eagles.org/what-we-do/conserve-protect]] has tips for how to protect bald eagles from things that could put them in danger, such as power lines, poisons, and damage to their nests.
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* If climate change continues in its current course, polar bears will face extinction, due to the changes to their habitat. The bears will already be gone from Greenland and the northern coast of Canada. The last polar bears will have a hard time hunting and surviving, so they will be be thin and stressed. [[(FutureTimeline.net, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230193720/https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2015/04/3.htm]] The main way to save polar bears is by reducing greenhouse gas emissions that melt sea ice. Learn more about the efforts to do that at [[Polar Bears International|https://polarbearsinternational.org/get-involved/save-our-sea-ice-campaign/]].
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<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, one in five lizard species will be extinct. Temperature changes are bad for the health of cold-blooded reptiles. [[(BBC, 2010.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20190129074427/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10113949]]
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* Everywhere in the world, most meat will be grown from cell cultures. This industry has become much more affordable than traditional farming, because it uses less space, time, and resources. Few people will bring up animals for meat anymore.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2080-2089.htm#meat]]
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* If climate change continues in its current course, emperor penguins will face extinction. This is because climate change affected their habitat in Antarctica. [[(Telegraph, 2009.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20090304085905/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/4355800/Emperor-penguins-could-be-virtually-extinct-by-2100-scientists-say.html]]
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* If climate change proceeds on its current course, the ocean's pH level will have decreased below what it's been in 20 million years, which makes it difficult for shellfish to grow their shells. <<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>25% of all species of plants and land animals will go extinct.<</if>> [[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]
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* The Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. They were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2022>>
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* The Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Winter_Olympics]]
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* The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2024>>
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<<if $INTEREST_ARTS is false>>
* The Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics]] The Summer Paralympics, too.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Paralympics]] As of 2019, the organizers of the Olympics are opening up to possibly bringing in some more sports in the 2024 Olympics: breaking (breakdancing), surfing, sport climbing, and skateboarding. [[(NBC)|https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/06/25/breaking-added-olympics]], [[(CNN).|https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/25/sport/breakdancing-paris-olympics-trnd/index.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2026>>
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* The Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be held in Italy. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Winter_Olympics]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2028>>
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* The Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_Summer_Olympics]] The Paralympics, too. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_Summer_Paralympics]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2080>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* A study from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Management Center Innsbruck, Austria says that if climate change proceeds on its current course, then many places that used to host the winter Olympics will no longer get enough snow. This affects places in Canada, Germany, Russia, and the US. The study expects this will start to be seen from the 2050s and 2080s. [[(University of Waterloo, 2014.)|https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/climate-change-threatens-winter-olympics]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2021>>
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* The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia will be finished, making it not only the world's tallest building, but the world's first building to be 1 kilometer tall (0.6 miles tall). <<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>That's assuming that the 2020 COVID-19 epidemic will not delay it.<</if>> [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Tower]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2028>>
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* The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will be completed. It's an underwater tunnel between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2100>>
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* In response to how climate change flooded the places that people lived on the coasts, people might build new cities to live in on the further-inland coasts, and could even build cities that float on the water. [[Learn more on FutureTimeline.net.|https://futuretimeline.net/22ndcentury/2100-2149.htm]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2023>>
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* NASA says it will land a rover on the Moon to search for water. Water would be a useful resource if we send humans there later. [[(Discover, 2019.)|http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/10/25/nasas-sending-a-rover-to-the-moon-to-find-water-for-astronauts/#.XbO6-EZKiiM]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2024>>
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* SpaceX plans to have the first humans land on Mars. They will stay there for the rest of their lives.
[[(The Telegraph, 2017.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20190707040941/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/29/mars-city-human-missions-space-colony-will-start-2024-elon-musk/]] However, engineers at MIT say this would be too soon. We haven't fully developed the technology that would help people survive there for long. For example, for getting water and keeping fresh air. Because of these limitations, the colonists would begin dying in only 68 days after arriving on Mars. [[(MIT, 2014.)|https://news.mit.edu/2014/technical-feasibility-mars-one-1014]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2029>>
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* In 2008, we made a high-powered radio signal, "A Message from Earth," which was a time capsule of messages from hundreds of people. We sent it to a planet outside our solar system, Gliese 581c. The message will arrive there in 2029, having traveled 192 trillion kilometers. We don't think anybody will hear it there, since that planet is no more habitable than Venus.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581c#A_Message_from_Earth]]
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* China plans to have built a manned research station on the south pole of the Moon. [[(Phys.org, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200331020544/https://phys.org/news/2019-04-china-moon-station-years.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2310>>
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* The Voyager I probe will reach the Oort Cloud. [[Learn more on FutureTimeline.net.|https://www.futuretimeline.net/the-far-future-2300-2999.htm#voyager-1-future-timeline]]
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* During this year, "some economists predict the greatest number of baby boomers ... will retire," so there will be several times more job openings available (Vermond, //The Secret Life of Money//, p. 36). If you want to switch to a better job, this will be the best time for you to do so.
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* All data from the 1950 US Census will be fully released to the public. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_United_States_Census]]
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<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* According to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, the US may need to continue social distancing to fight the COVID-19 pandemic into 2022. It could be shorter only if hospitals have far more resources, or if a vaccine or other treatment becomes available. Otherwise, the pandemic may seem to be gone for a while, but could spike again as late as 2024. [[(CNN, 2020.)|https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/health/social-distancing-research-coronavirus-2022-trnd/index.html]] These dates could change as more comes to be understood about COVID-19.
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* [[Learn about the US 2024 presidential candidates on Politico.|https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/03/2024-presidential-election-candidates-091055]]
* Mickey Mouse could finally pass into the public domain, unless if Disney once again fights to extend the terms of copyright. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act]]
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<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* According to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, the COVID-19 pandemic could continue in the US as late as 2024. [[(SCNN, 2020.)|https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/health/social-distancing-research-coronavirus-2022-trnd/index.html]] These dates could change as more comes to be understood about COVID-19.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2025>>
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* The US government says that in all the country, the minimum wage will be raised to $15. This was in response to strikes by workers who lived in poverty because minimum wage was so much lower than the cost of living. The original purpose of minimum wage was to make sure that people would be paid at least enough to afford food, shelter, and necessities. The cost of living had gone up over the years, so minimum wage also needed to go up. [[(New York Times, 2019.|https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/us/politics/minimum-wage.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2027>>
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* Because it's been 50 years, the autopsy report for Elvis Presley will be unsealed.
[[(Newsweek, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200107061129/https://www.newsweek.com/his-80th-birthday-revisiting-conspiracies-have-kept-elvis-presley-alive-297968]]
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* Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were both born in 1929. This means that if they had not both been killed by their governments because of their ethnicities, then this is the year that they could both have turned 98 years old. This year, the FBI will unseal its records of its surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr, as well as classified documents about the investigation of King's assassination.
[[Learn more about the FBI files on King, through Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#State_surveillance_and_coercion]]
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* The Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_Summer_Olympics]] The Paralympics, too. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_Summer_Paralympics]]
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* The US Treasury says it will put a picture of Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) on the $20 bill after all, this year, later than originally intended. Tubman was a disabled African-American woman who escaped slavery, and then heroically freed many people from it. Later, she did activism for women to get the right to vote. [[(CNBC, 2019.|https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/harriet-tubman-20-bill-no-longer-coming-in-2020.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
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* In the US, half of the shopping malls will have closed. We will do most of our shopping for clothing and other supplies over the Internet.
[[(FutureTimeline.net, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200414183922/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2030.htm]] Most clothing stores will let you "try before you buy:" order clothes to try them on, and send them back if they don't fit. [[(Shaherazad Shoe Blog, 2018.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200420013533/https://www.shaherazad.com/blogs/news/the-future-of-fashion-how-we-will-shop-in-2030]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2034>>
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* Projections from 2015 say that in the US, Social Security's retirement and disability trust funds may become insolvent by 2034.
[[(The Hill, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200305181141/https://thehill.com/policy/finance/248816-social-security-projected-to-hit-insolvency-by-2034]] However, the year of this event varies a great deal from one prediction to the next.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2037>>
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* At some point between 2020 and 2037, a major earthquake could cause serious damage to the Los Angeles basin in California. However, earthquakes don't really happen on schedules. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2020.htm#california-quake]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2039>>
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* If climate change continues in its current course, then record heatwaves could make problems in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2039.htm#heatwaves]]
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* By this year, many species will go extinct in the wild all over the world, as part of the Holocene extinction event caused by humans. 70% of polar bears will be gone. [[(FutureTimeline, 2014.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231043321/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2045.htm]]
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* The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when white women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. At that rate, women of color will still not have equal pay. That would take until 2130 for black women, and 2224 for hispanic women. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2060>>
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* At some point between 2020 and 2060, the biggest earthquake in US history could damage every state on the west coast. This will happen because that region has the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a tectonic plate boundary that has a major quake about once in 300 years. This quake will be centered on Oregon state. It will cause a tsunami that will affect not only the continental coast, but will also reach to Hawaii. However, earthqakes don't really happen on schedules. [[(Futuretimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2020.htm#earthquake]]
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* If climate change continues in its current course, flooding will make problems in New York. Manhattan will put up flood barriers and locks, which are huge building projects.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2060-2069.htm#floodbarriers]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2065>>
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* If climate change continues in its current course, it will cause so much fire and flood damage in the US that many insurance companies will file for bankruptcy.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2060-2069.htm#insurance]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2070>>
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* Glassdoor projects that in the US, if progress continues at the same rate, employers might start paying white women as much as white men. [[(PR Newswire.)|https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/glassdoor-research-reveals-the-gender-pay-gap-still-exists-but-slowly-shrinking-in-the-us-uk-and-other-countries-300819171.html]] The Institute for Women's Policy Research has additional projections, saying that it would take decades longer for women of color: 2130 for black women, and 2224 for hispanic women. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2075>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, there will be changes in where different kinds of birds live in North America. This is also due to changes in how humans use the land. Some kinds of birds will increase their habitat range, so that we will see them in places we didn't before. That will happen with Gambel's quail, cactus wrens, and scissor-tailed flycatchers. Other birds will lose range due to habitat loss, such as baltimore orioles, common pelicans, and common loons. The bald eagle in particular will lose 75% of its range. [[(The Guardian, 2014.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230183542/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/north-america-birds-extinction-study-climate-change]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2080>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change proceeds on its current course, much of New York City will be under a meter (about 3.3 feet) of water.
[[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]
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<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, polar bears will face extinction, due to the changes to their habitat. The bears will already be gone from Greenland and the northern coast of Canada. The last polar bears will have a hard time hunting and surviving, so they will be be thin and stressed. [[(FutureTimeline.net, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230193720/https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2015/04/3.htm]]
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<<if $INTEREST_SPORTS is false>>
* A study from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Management Center Innsbruck, Austria says that if climate change proceeds on its current course, then many places that used to host the winter Olympics will no longer get enough snow. This affects places in Canada, Germany, Russia, and the US. The study expects this will start to be seen from the 2050s and 2080s. [[(University of Waterloo, 2014.)|https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/climate-change-threatens-winter-olympics]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2085>>
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* At the current rate, as of 2015, it will take until 2085 for an equal number of women to be in leadership positions in the US. [[(American Progress.)|https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2015/08/04/118743/the-womens-leadership-gap/]]
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* The Institute for Women's Policy Research predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when black women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. At that rate, hispanic women will still not have equal pay until 2224. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* The Institute for Women's Policy Research predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when hispanic women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* Projections based on current demographics suggest that by 2240, most people in the USA could be non-religous, atheist, or agnostic.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/23rdcentury/2200-2249.htm#christianity]]
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<</if>><center><h2>Bucket List</h2><center><br><br>
A bucket list is a popular name for list of things that you want to do sometime in your life. (As in, before you kick the bucket.) Everybody has their own unique bucket list. It can be full of things that are great accomplishments that make you feel good about yourself, or put you in a better place than you've been, or are just for fun. Making up a bucket list is a great starting point for making big plans. What's on your bucket list? Below, I have a list of some popular bucket list items. Check as many items as you want to do in your future. <br><br>
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<center><h2>Love</h2><center><br><br>
What will you do that brings you closer to others? <br><br>
''Friendship'' <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Find my best friend(s) forever, and give each other friendship bracelets, BFF necklaces, or some other symbol that we each like</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Build a network of good friends, where we truly care about each other and help one another, through thick and thin</label>
<br><br>
''Pets'' <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Adopt a pet</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Build the coolest home for my pet</label>
<br><br>
''Romance'' <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Have my first kiss</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Stay in a relationship together with a partner for at least a year</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get married</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Have my dream wedding</label>
<br><br>
''Other generations'' <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Have and/or adopt a child or children</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Become a godparent or a mentor</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Create or revive a family tradition</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn a language my ancestors spoke, and then teach it to others in my family, and/or to young ones</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Support my elders during their twilight years</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Be a positive influence on my grandchildren, great-grandchildren, godchildren, or other loved ones of much younger generations</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Another goal about love, friendship, and family than is listed here</label>
<br><br>
''Things to do together with loved ones'' <br>
These are some fun goals that you might share together with friends or family. <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Go stargazing in a rural area by putting pillows, blankets, and thermoses of hot chocolate in the bed of a pickup truck</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Go camping together</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Read aloud from a whole book series together, taking turns to read it</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Cosplay as a group of characters and take photos</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Start a fashion trend</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Play a long campaign of Dungeons & Dragons together</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Have a potluck party</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Start a music band</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Host a themed party</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Be pen pals, and send each other handmade postcards</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Have a makeover day, and give each other makeovers</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Help somebody move house</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Another idea for things to do together than is listed here</label>
<br><br>
<center><h2>Money</h2><center><br><br>
In this society, we need money in order to meet many kinds of goals. <br><br>
''Career goals and making money'' <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get my first real job</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get my dream job</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Become self-employed, and successfully run my own small business for years</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Set up many streams of income, including passive income</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Leave the rat race, live on a sustainable farm in an intentional community</label>
<br><br>
''Banking goals''<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get a bank account</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get a good credit card</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get a good credit rating</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Pay off my student debt</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Pay off all my other debt</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Complete my emergency savings</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Save up for my retirement</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Retire young</label>
<br><br>
''Expense goals''<br>
What are some fun or important things you want to save up for? <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Replace my whole wardrobe with clothes that I truly love being myself in</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Do an extreme sport, like skydiving, or flying in a wingsuit</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> See live performances of operas, plays, ballets, or sporting events</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Buy a large area of wilderness in order to protect it from being logged or otherwise destroyed</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Donate a lot of money to a charity that I believe in</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Buy my dream car</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Change my lifestyle so that I don't need a car, just public transportation or biking</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Another expense goal than what is listed here</label>
<br><br>
''Travel goals''<br>
What kinds of travel do you want to save up for? <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Travel to some other far-away places or countries</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Backpack through Europe</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Hike the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Trail, or another extremely long trail</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Climb a mountain</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Go on a road trip with my loved ones</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Go snorkeling in tropical waters</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Go to a concert for a band I always wanted to see</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Live in another part of the world for a long period of time</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Another travel goal than what is listed here</label>
<br><br>
''Home and property'' <br>
What kind of house or houses do you want to have? <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Move to a different place</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Buy a home</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Assemble a small library in my home</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Decorate my home interior just the way that I want it</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Buy an investment property or properties</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Buy land, and build on it</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Pay off my home loan</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Remodel my home</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Remodel a property to sell it for more than I bought it, which is called flipping a house</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Another home or property goal than what is listed here</label>
<br><br>
<center><h2>Learning</h2><center><br><br>
''Learning skills'' <br>
What do you want to learn how to do?
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn another language or languages</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Have an hour-long conversation with a native speaker of a language that you learned</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Read 50 books in a new language that you learned</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to play a musical instrument</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Write a song or songs</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Perform music before an audience</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to dance</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to drive a car</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to do some basic car repair and maintenance, such as changing a tire</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to ride a horse</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to code</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Read 100 books in a year</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Participate in a play or a Shakespeare In The Park performance</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to make clothes by sewing or knitting</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to draw, paint, sculpt, or otherwise make art</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn self defense</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to swim</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to stay safe and oriented in the wilderness, by reading stars, tracks, and other natural signs</label>
<br> <br>
''Educational goals''<br>
What do you want to accomplish in school?<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Study abroad</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Homeschool or unschool myself</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Graduate from high school, or get an equivalent of a diploma, such as a GED</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Graduate from a four-year college</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get a master's degree</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get a PhD</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Graduate from a technical college (which, depending on the field, could take one, two, or three years)</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Become the top expert in a certain field</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Another educational goal than is listed here</label>
<br>
<center><h2>Spirituality</h2><center><br><br>
''Spirituality'' <br>
What do you want to do involving your religion and spirituality? Your connection to spirituality is as unique as you are, so here are some ideas that may or may not have to do with your own path or denomination.<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Read my religion's book(s) of scriptures from cover to cover</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Memorize part or all of my religion's book(s) of scriptures</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Read some books of scriptures from religions other than my own</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Study some criticisms of my religion or spirituality, to explore other views of it</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Go on a pilgrimage to a place that has spiritual or religious significance to me</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Volunteer for a charitable cause through your religious organization</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn the language(s) that my religion's book(s) of scriptures were originally written in</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn about the religion(s) practiced by my ancestors</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to tell fortunes (which could be astrology, Tarot, palm reading, throwing the bones, etc.)</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Participate in a large religious/spiritual festival, ritual, or event</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Participate in a paranormal investigation</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Another spiritual or religious goal than is listed here</label>
<br>
<center><h2>Health and body</h2><center><br><br>
''Health and body'' <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn how to cook healthy meals</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Break a bad habit</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Quit smoking, drinking, and/or doing recreational drugs</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Assemble a home disaster survival kit and first aid kit</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Work out, eat right, and get my dream body</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get a gym membership, and really go to the gym on a regular basis</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Work my way up to being able to do 100 push-ups in a row</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Earn an athletic medal</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Take steps in my gender transition</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Make a vision board of how I can make myself look my best, and give myself a makeover</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get tattooed</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get a body mod</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Accomplish another goal about my body and health than is listed here</label>
<br>
<center><h2>Futurism</h2><center><br><br>
''Futuristic technologies'' <br>
What goals do you have that depend on technological advances that aren't quite here yet? Some of these are kind of here now, and just hard to get, but others, it's hard to believe they'll ever be a reality. If they're what you really want, though, what can you do to help make these happen? <br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Become a cyborg</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Modify my genetic code</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Upload my consciousness to a computer so that I can outlive my body (moving into a lab-grown body, or holographic body, or robot body, or existing as a software entity with no physical body)</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Use advances in medical technology to live longer than 120 years</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Travel to outer space</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Visit another celestial body, such as the Moon, or planet Mars</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Live on a space station</label>
<br>
<center><h2>Good deeds</h2><center><br><br>
''Good deeds''
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Donate blood</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Get training in first aid and CPR</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Volunteer in a mutual aid project</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Help run a free store, little free pantry, and/or little free library</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Volunteer at a charity for a long time</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Volunteer at a food bank</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Volunteer at a homeless shelter</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Volunteer to provide your specialized job skills for free to people in need</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Sponsor a child's education</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Donate to a fundraiser or otherwise substantially help somebody overcome homelessness or a huge medical bill</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Help set up and/or run a fundraiser for a good cause</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn about how to get really good at protesting, and participate in many meaningful protests</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Learn and use first aid training to support people in protests as an action medic</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Participate in direct action</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Volunteer in a community food garden</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Do another good deed than is listed here</label>
<br>
<center><h2>Legacy</h2><center><br><br>
''Legacy'' <br>
What actions can outlive you?<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Make a time capsule, writing letters to my future self, or to other people in the future</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Write my will</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Sign up to donate my body to science and/or become an organ donor after my natural death</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Publish a book or books</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Act in a movie, even if as an extra</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Sell original art I made to a place that will display it for many decades</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Make a scrapbook or memory album for my loved ones</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Research and document my family tree (or the family tree of a loved one)</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Donate my research and artifacts to a local history museum</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Volunteer in a wilderness restoration project, which can include planting trees</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Set a record in the Guinness World Records</label>
<br>
* <label><<checkbox "$VARIABLE" false true>> Do something else that could outlive you than what is listed here</label>
<br>
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* The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 will be held. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2021]]
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* All sound recordings made before 1923 will enter the public domain in the US, so we can use them in our music mixes and videos. That is, if nobody extends the term of copyright longer again. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Modernization_Act]]
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* The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will honor the best in North American fiction among women and nonbinary authors. It is limited to them to address the problem that literary awards are mostly awarded to men. It's not that there are fewer women authors, or fewer readers of them, or lower quality of work. It's because of social attitudes that value women's works less than those of men. This prize hopes to balance that inequality. It will offer USD$113,00 to the first winner, which is more than the Pulitzer Prize or the National Book Award. [[(CNN, 2020.)|https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_13a21455055c82c7dae89c0d4772e799]]
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* Mickey Mouse could finally pass into the public domain, unless if Disney once again fights to extend the terms of copyright. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act]]
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* The Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics]] The Summer Paralympics, too.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Paralympics]] As of 2019, the organizers of the Olympics are opening up to possibly bringing in some more sports in the 2024 Olympics: breaking (breakdancing), surfing, sport climbing, and skateboarding. [[(NBC)|https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/06/25/breaking-added-olympics]], [[(CNN).|https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/25/sport/breakdancing-paris-olympics-trnd/index.html]]
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* Because it's been 50 years, the autopsy report for Elvis Presley will be unsealed.
[[(Newsweek, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200107061129/https://www.newsweek.com/his-80th-birthday-revisiting-conspiracies-have-kept-elvis-presley-alive-297968]]
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* If US copyright law stays the same, then <i>The Diary of Anne Frank</i> will enter public domain. [[(Wikimedia Blog, 2016.)|https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/10/anne-frank-diary-removal/]]
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* If copyright law stays the same, then the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien will enter the public domain. This will include <i>The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings</i>, and many other works. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231111536/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2044.htm]]
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* If copyright law stays the same, then the music by the Beatles will enter the public domain. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200408134638/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2058.htm]]
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* The longest performance of a single song will end, having played for 639 years. The song is Organ ^2/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible), composed by John Milton Cage Jr., performed on an organ in St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany. [[Learn more on FutureTimeline.net.|https://www.futuretimeline.net/the-far-future-2300-2999.htm#as-slow-as-possible]]
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* The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will honor the best in North American fiction among women and nonbinary authors. It is limited to them to address the problem that literary awards are mostly awarded to men. It's not that there are fewer women authors, or fewer readers of them, or lower quality of work. It's because of social attitudes that value women's works less than those of men. This prize hopes to balance that inequality. It will offer USD$113,00 to the first winner, which is more than the Pulitzer Prize or the National Book Award. [[(CNN, 2020.)|https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_13a21455055c82c7dae89c0d4772e799]]
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* The African country of Ethiopia says it plans to get rid of child marriage as well as female genital cutting by 2024. [[(BBC.)|https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cdn743d9p2wt/child-marriage]]
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* According to projections by the consulting firm Accenture, in Canada, if progress continues at the same rate, employers might start to pay women as much as men by year 2035. [[(Benefits Canada, 2017.)|https://www.benefitscanada.com/news/canadas-gender-pay-gap-could-close-by-2035-study-94626]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when employers in the US will finally begin to pay white women as much as white men. At that rate, women of color will still not have equal pay. That would take until 2130 for black women, and 2224 for hispanic women. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] However, Glassdoor economists project that this will all happen even later, and white women will have equal pay with white men in 2070. [[(PR Newswire.)|https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/glassdoor-research-reveals-the-gender-pay-gap-still-exists-but-slowly-shrinking-in-the-us-uk-and-other-countries-300819171.html]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* Glassdoor projects that in the US, if progress continues at the same rate, employers might start paying white women as much as white men. [[(PR Newswire.)|https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/glassdoor-research-reveals-the-gender-pay-gap-still-exists-but-slowly-shrinking-in-the-us-uk-and-other-countries-300819171.html]] The Institute for Women's Policy Research has additional projections, saying that it would take decades longer for women of color: 2130 for black women, and 2224 for hispanic women. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* The Institute for Women's Policy Research predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when black women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. At that rate, hispanic women will still not have equal pay until 2224. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* The Institute for Women's Policy Research predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when hispanic women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* In 2017, the World Economic Forum said that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then women will finally earn as much as men and have equal representation in the workplace by 2234.
[[(BBC, 2017.|https://web.archive.org/web/20200306174816/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-41844875]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* Based on the runways, the fashion forecast for 2020 includes psychedelic florals and tropical prints, hound's tooth, Western wear (especially cowboy boots), neon colors (especially bright yellow), exaggeratedly voluminous silhouettes, big collars, hoop earrings, crochet, rule-breaking androgynous styles in men's and women's wear, and some elements from the '60s, '70s, and '80s. (Sources: [[Instyle|https://www.instyle.com/fashion/clothing/2020-best-fashion-trends-vintage]], [[Vogue|https://www.vogue.fr/fashion/article/the-17-fashion-trends-you-need-to-know-for-fallwinter-2019-2020]], [[Insider|https://www.insider.com/style-fashion-trends-popular-in-the-next-decade-2020]], [[Insider|https://www.insider.com/fashion-style-trends-well-be-seeing-in-2020]]).
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* Based on the runways, the fashion forecast for 2021 includes shoulder pads, ruffled blouses, fringe, silver fabric, mini check, floral prints, black leather, winter capes, and floor-length coats. (Sources: [[Vogue|https://www.vogue.fr/fashion/article/best-fashion-trends-fall-winter-2020-2021]]; [[Fashion United|https://fashionunited.com/news/fashion/protests-and-idealism-5-trends-for-spring-summer-2021/2020022132261?PageSpeed=noscript]]).
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* In 2015, The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & Society predicted that 10% of people will wear smart watches or other accessories embedded with chips that connect them to the Internet. [[(Medium, 2015)|https://medium.com/mighty-things/wearable-internet-b987c781db1d]], [[(World Economic Forum (PDF link))|http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC15_Technological_Tipping_Points_report_2015.pdf]].
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* The state of California was the first in the US to ban the sale of products made of fur. That law will go into effect in 2023. (Some products are exempt, such as leather, and materials used by Native Americans.) This could lead to other states banning fur as well. It will have an effect on the fashion trends of the decade. [[(CNN, 2019.)|https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/us/california-bans-fur-products-trnd/index.html]]
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* You will be able to use 3D printing to make clothing, accessories, and jewelry that you can wear, at near-zero cost. These will come from a huge archive of open-source files. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2024.htm#3d-printed-clothes-future]] You could also be able to purchase designs to print and wear. Before you print your clothes, you could use computer-assisted design (CAD) to customize them, so they'll fit your body just right, and they'll express your personal style. [[(Shaherazad Shoe Blog, 2018.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200420013533/https://www.shaherazad.com/blogs/news/the-future-of-fashion-how-we-will-shop-in-2030]] Some of the fastest growth of the 3D printing industry for consumers will be for shoes and other things where each customer has fairly unique needs. [[(World Economic Forum (PDF link).)|http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC15_Technological_Tipping_Points_report_2015.pdf]] If you don't have a 3D printer in your home, there could be ones at your local clothing and shoe shops.
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* In 2010, the Forum for the Future predicted that awareness of climate change will make the fashions of 2025 focus on sustainability. The slow fashion movement will be popular, which is about making clothes that last a long time, instead of flimsy and faddish ones. It will be popular to "upcycle" old clothes into completely new ones. Because climate change can cause water shortages in some places, waterless washing machines will become popular. Those wash clothes with dry soap and reusable beads. A new type of fabric will be made by a bacteria culture that produce cellulose, which will be more environmentally friendly than synthetics. [[(FastCompany, 2010)|https://www.fastcompany.com/1561484/what-will-fashion-industry-look-2025]], [[(Forum for the Future)|https://web.archive.org/web/20101012120801/https://www.forumforthefuture.org/projects/fashion-clues]], [[(Time.)|https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2029497_2030651_2029718,00.html]] Learn more about the [[slow fashion movement on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_fashion]]
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* In the US, half of the shopping malls will have closed. We will do most of our shopping for clothing and other supplies over the Internet.
[[(FutureTimeline, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200414183922/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2030.htm]] Most clothing stores will let you "try before you buy:" order clothes to try them on, and send them back if they don't fit. [[(Shaherazad Shoe Blog, 2018.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200420013533/https://www.shaherazad.com/blogs/news/the-future-of-fashion-how-we-will-shop-in-2030]]
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* The author of this program has a good guess that surgical masks will stay with us as a common fashion accessory, like a scarf or sunglasses, having been normalized due to the lasting cultural effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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* If nanotech is available to the public, then people could make clothing that has nanotech. This means that the wearer can use microscopic robots to change the color, texture, and shape of their clothes. This wearable technology will be able to do things that we never thought of clothes being able to do before. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2070-2079.htm#future-clothing]]
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* All data from the 1950 US Census will be fully released to the public. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_United_States_Census]]
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* Because it's been 50 years, the autopsy report for Elvis Presley will be unsealed.
[[(Newsweek, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200107061129/https://www.newsweek.com/his-80th-birthday-revisiting-conspiracies-have-kept-elvis-presley-alive-297968]]
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* Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were both born in 1929. This means that if they had not both been killed by their governments because of their ethnicities, then this is the year that they could both have turned 98 years old. This year, the FBI will unseal its records of its surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr, as well as classified documents about the investigation of King's assassination.
[[Learn more about the FBI files on King, through Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#State_surveillance_and_coercion]]
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* If US copyright law stays the same, then <i>The Diary of Anne Frank</i> will enter public domain. [[( Wikimedia Blog, 2016.)|https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/10/anne-frank-diary-removal/]]
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* The opening of a 100 year old time capsule at the Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Harrington_Discovery_Center#Helium_Centennial_Time_Columns_Monument]]
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* The opening of a 1000 year old time capsule at the Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Harrington_Discovery_Center#Helium_Centennial_Time_Columns_Monument]]
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* The South Asian country of Nepal says its census will count LGBTQ people for the first time. [[(Christian Science Monitor, 2020.)|https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2020/0204/LGBTQ-people-to-be-counted-in-Nepal-s-census-for-the-first-time]]
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* Canada says this census will give a third option to mark one's gender. [[(The Independent.)|https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canada-third-gender-census-lgbtq-rights-spectrum-identity-statistics-a8355031.html]]
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* The Australian Bureau of Statistics says it might add categories to this census census that can include transgender and intersex people. [[(South Florida Gay News.)|https://southfloridagaynews.com/World/australia-considers-intersex-category-on-2021-census.html]]
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* The US state of Michigan says it may begin to offer the option to mark one's gender as X on a driver's license. They could become the 14th state to do so. [[(Detroit News, 2020.)|https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/06/michigan-sos-may-add-third-gender-option-drivers-license/2827473001/]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2022>>
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* The World Health Organization (WHO) will no longer consider being transgender to be inherently a mental illness. This change will be in the 2022 edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 11th revision (ICD-11). [[(Forbes, 2019.)|https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleefowlkes/2019/05/30/who-being-transgender-no-longer-considered-a-mental-illness/#49bdc2ee1c3b]]
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* Gus Kenworthy, who is openly gay, will ski for Great Britain in the Olympics. [[(People.)|https://people.com/sports/olympian-gus-kenworthy-compete-for-great-britain]]
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* The US state of Illinois says that it will begin to let people mark their gender as X on driver's licenses and all state documents. [[(TransEquality.org)|https://transequality.org/documents/state/illinois]], [[(Out, 2019).|https://www.out.com/transgender/2019/8/26/illinois-will-begin-issuing-nonbinary-ids-theres-catch]]
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* Some futurists predict that by 2024, new procedures for gender transition could exist [[(H+ Magazine, 2014)|https://web.archive.org/web/20190531225121/http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/05/08/total-gender-change-within-decade/]]. We could be able to use CRISPR, an existing technology has been used to edit the genes of adult humans [[(Guardian, 2017)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200309142116/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/15/scientists-make-first-ever-attempt-at-gene-editing-inside-the-body]]. We already know that deleting a single gene in an adult mammal can change that animals' ovaries into testes [[(Not Rocket Science, 2009)|https://web.archive.org/web/20190509061626/https://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/12/16/one-gene-stops-ovaries-from-turning-into-testes]], or testes into ovaries [[(Medical Express)|https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-gene-required-male-sex-life.html]]. There have already been successful transplants of the penis, with near normal function [[(Ars Technica, 2019)|https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/penis-and-scrotum-transplant-patient-reports-near-normal-erections-orgasms/]], and of the uterus, resulting in successfully giving birth [[(CNN, 2020)|https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/health/uterus-transplant-second-birth-us-bn/index.html]]. This article focuses on what uterus transplants could mean for trans people, and other transition options that will exist in the future: [[Futurism, 2018.|https://futurism.com/neoscope/trans-reproductive-tech]] We will also be able to create lab-grown sex organs from scratch, just as will be done with kidneys and other organs. Lab-grown organs will be made by cultivating one's own stem cells on a 3D-printed scaffold, and then implanting those organs into the body. That would work better than organ transplants from donors. So far, there have already been successes with lab-grown vaginas and urethras [[(Reuters, 2014)|https://www.reuters.com/article/us-organs-vaginas/scientists-grow-viable-vaginas-from-girls-own-cells-idUSBREA3924L20140410]]. These methods will exist by this year, on an experimental level. It could take years later before these methods will be widely and safely available to most transgender and intersex people who want them.
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* In 2019, the United Methodist Church declared it was against same-gender marriage and LGBT clergy. The church will allow until the end of 2024 for LGBT-affirming congregations to leave the denomination. This has made a big division in the 200 year old church. [[(Washington Post, 2019.)|https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/02/27/reeling-contentious-lgbt-vote-some-methodists-pledge-fight-while-others-mull-leaving/]], [[(NPR, 2020.)|https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/793614135/united-methodist-church-announces-proposal-to-split-over-gay-marriage]]
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* This is the expected completion date of the National LGBTQ2+ Monument in Ottawa. This memorial honors the estimated 9,000 Canadians who were affected between 1950 to 1992 by a "gay purge" program. The purge had outed, fired, and ruined the careers of anyone in government work who were suspected of being LGBT. (It's similar to the "lavender scare" that happened at the same time in the US.) When that happened to Michelle Douglas, she fought back with a lawsuit, and ended the purge. The Prime Minister has since apologized to the victims of the purge. [[(York Times, 2020.)|https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/world/canada/canada-gay-purge-monument.html]]
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* The market for facial recognition services could double by 2024. These technologies tend to misgender people. That can lead to discrimination and dangerous situations for transgender people. [[(University of Colorado Boulder Today.)|https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/10/08/facial-recognition-software-has-gender-problem]]
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* As attitudes about LGBT people change, the words that LGBT people use to describe themselves will change, too. That has always happened in the communities' histories. Words that are okay now might be seen as offensive in the future, and vice versa. [[This article on Mic wonders about how that might look by 2030.|https://www.mic.com/articles/189433/what-will-queer-language-look-like-in-2030-we-tried-to-find-out]]
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* In North America, gay culture will respond to becoming part of mainstream culture by focusing on archiving histories of harder times, as recalled by survivors of the time of AIDS, around the 1980s. [[(New Republic, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20150624075809/https://newrepublic.com/article/122120/what-will-gay-culture-look-2035]]
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* More than half the countries in the world will allow same-gender marriage. Most countries will decriminalize same-gender relationships. [[(FutureTimeline, 2014).|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231043321/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2045.htm]]
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* This will be the 50th observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It is observed by reading aloud a list of names of all the trans people who were killed as victims of hate crimes that year. [[(Wikipedia.)|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_Remembrance]] We will know that the world is getting safer for trans people when the yearly list of names stops getting longer. [[(Today I Am A Man, 2014.)|https://mantodayblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/where-will-the-trans-movement-be-in-10-years/]]
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* In the UK, "The Government Actuary's Department estimates that by the year 2050 around 3.3 per cent of homosexuals aged 16 and over will be in registered civil partnerships, compared with a third of the heterosexual population who will be married." However, it's usually difficult to estimate how many LGBT people live in any country, because their numbers tend to be underreported. [[(Telegraph, 2005.)|https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1505277/Six-per-cent-of-population-are-gay-or-lesbian-according-to-Whitehall-figures.html]]
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* In 2019, the United Methodist Church declared it was against same-gender marriage and LGBT clergy. The church will allow until the end of 2024 for LGBT-affirming congregations to leave the denomination. This has made a big division in the 200 year old church. [[(Washington Post, 2019.)|https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/02/27/reeling-contentious-lgbt-vote-some-methodists-pledge-fight-while-others-mull-leaving/]], [[(NPR, 2020.)|https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/793614135/united-methodist-church-announces-proposal-to-split-over-gay-marriage]]
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* If trends continue, Christianity and Islam could be the two most common religions in the world, each being 32.3% of the world's population. 12% of people in the world will be non-religious.
[[(FutureTimeline, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200326044548/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2070-2079.htm]]
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* If trends in Europe continue, 90% of people on the continent could be non-religious.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2090-2099.htm#religion]]
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* If trends continue, 34.9% of the world's population could be Muslim, making Islam the most common religion in the world. Christanity could be the second most common, at 33.8%. [[(FutureTimeline.net, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200326044548/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2070-2079.htm]]
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* If trends in the USA continue, most people in the country could be non-religous, atheist, or agnostic.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/23rdcentury/2200-2249.htm#christianity]]
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* The WHO predicts that even with efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be a peak in need for critical care beds around November and December 2020, carrying on into February or March 2021. [[See the chart in this article from the Imperial College of London.|https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-researchers-model-likely-impact/]]
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* Between 2025 and 2030, many kinds of animals in Britain will go extinct in the wild. This includes hedgehogs, red squirrels, cuckoos, Scottish wildcats, natterjack toads, red-necked phalaropes, woodland grouse, and turtledoves. This will happen because humans are destroying these animals' habitats through pollution, pesticides, and farming. [[(FutureTimeline.net, 2011.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200213052950/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2025.htm]]
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<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* Most of the 90 million ash trees in Britain will be killed by a fungal disease. The highly contagious fungus, ash dieback, was accidentally brought to Britain in 2012. It is thought that there is nothing anybody can do to stop its spread. Many animals in the British ecosystem depend upon ash tree forests. Losing the ash will cause us to lose many birds, too.
[[(FutureTimeline.net)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2032.htm#ashdieback]] Scientists discovered that some ash trees have a natural resistance to the fungus, so the scientists are trying to breed more resistant ash trees, and bank their seeds for later [[(BBC)|https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50420207]].
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2040>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_FRANCE is false>>
* Back in 2017, the governments of France and the UK declared that they will take measures to fight air pollution by 2040. This includes that these governments will ban the sale of new diesel and petrol cars and vans starting in 2040
[[(BBC.)|https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40723581]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2044>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ARTS is false>>
* If copyright law stays the same, then the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien will enter the public domain. This will include <i>The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings</i>, and many other works. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231111536/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2044.htm]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2046>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The UK will raise its state pension age to 70.
[[(FutureTimeline.net, 2018.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2046.htm#2046-uk-state-pension-age-70]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_LGBT is false>>* In the UK, "The Government Actuary's Department estimates that by the year 2050 around 3.3 per cent of homosexuals aged 16 and over will be in registered civil partnerships, compared with a third of the heterosexual population who will be married." However, it's usually difficult to estimate how many LGBT people live in any country, because their numbers tend to be underreported. [[(Telegraph, 2005.)|https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1505277/Six-per-cent-of-population-are-gay-or-lesbian-according-to-Whitehall-figures.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2058>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ARTS is false>>
* If copyright law stays the same, then the music by the Beatles will enter the public domain. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200408134638/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2058.htm]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2060>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The population of the UK will be 80 million (80,000,000). This will make it the most populous country in western Europe. The population of London alone will be 12 million (12,000,000).
[[(FutureTimeline, 2018.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2060-2069.htm#uk-population-2060]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2021>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first male birth control pill will enter the market. People can take this pill to temporarily make it so that they don't produce viable sperm. The pill won't change the person's testosterone levels. If that person later decides they want to have children, then they just stop taking the pill. This pill will be the first new reversible birth control for men since the invention of the condom. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200114003132/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2021.htm]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2035>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* There could be an advance in medical technology making it so that people can delay menopause. Then people could have a baby after the age that they naturally would have had menopause. [[(Quantum Run.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20170610233512/https://www.quantumrun.com/article/can-we-stop-aging-and-menopause-indefinitely]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_FOOD is false>><<if $INTEREST_FOOD is false>>* Land that was once used to farm chocolate will instead be used to farm palm oil for biofuel, because that crop will be in higher demand, and more profitable. As a result, chocolate could become more rare and expensive. [[(Independent, 2010).|https://web.archive.org/web/20200408095904/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/chocolate-worth-its-weight-in-gold-2127874.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2032>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* Most of the 90 million ash trees in Britain will be killed by a fungal disease. The highly contagious fungus, ash dieback, was accidentally brought to Britain in 2012. It is thought that there is nothing anybody can do to stop its spread. Many animals in the British ecosystem depend upon ash tree forests. Losing the ash will cause us to lose many birds, too.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2032.htm#ashdieback]] Scientists discovered that some ash trees have a natural resistance to the fungus, so the scientists are trying to breed more resistant ash trees, and bank their seeds for later [[(BBC)|https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50420207]].
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2049>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* By this year, many plant species will go extinct in the wild all over the world, as part of the Holocene extinction event caused by humans. South Africa's national flower, the King Protea, will go extinct. In South America, nearly half the Amazon rainforest will be destroyed, causing the extinction of more than 2,000 species of trees. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231043321/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2045.htm]] The Rainforest Foundation, which partners with Indigenous peoples' communities and organizations, says that the main thing is to get governments to create laws that protect the Amazon, though they have [[a list of actions that people like us can do, too|https://rainforestfoundation.org/engage/10-things-you-can-do/]]. Here is [[a list of organizations working to protect the Amazon|https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/organizations-donate-amazon-rainforest/]], many of which work with and prioritize the Indigenous people who live there.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_FOOD is false>>
<<if $CW_INTOXICANTS is false>>
<<if $INTEREST_FOOD is false>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, it will no longer be possible to grow wine grapes in many of the traditional regions. The wine industry will have to adapt, such as by engineering hardier varieties of grapes, or growing them indoors.
[[(FutureTimeline, 2013.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2050.htm#climate-change-wine-industry]]
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* Barley is a very heat-sensitive crop. If climate change continues in its current course, barley will become more expensive. Barley is used for many purposes, especially feeding livestock. <<if $CW_INTOXICANTS is false>>Barley is also used in making beer, so beer will become more expensive each year.<</if>> [[(AP News, 2018.)|https://apnews.com/3f7f6cab367a489fb41d728f8a69f63b]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2058>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_FOOD is false>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, then the places that have grown most of the world's cacao will no longer be suitable for growing them. The warmer climate could push cacao farms up into the mountains, into what had been wildlife preserves. People will still make chocolate, but it will cost more. [[(Snopes, 2018.)|https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chocolate-extinct-40-years]]
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The user should have the ability to choose how long their lifespan should be. The default is 122, because that's the age of the oldest human. However, maybe the user only wants to think about a shorter life expectancy, and they don't want to be teased with a longer one. Or maybe the user is thinking about extending their life due to advances in health tech and longevity. (Those users would get to see some of the events that I've included that are very far away in the future!) Either way, the user should be able to put something different in a text box.
I still feel like there should be some features here for calculating their life expectancy, but that's such an inexact art. My research about people who live to be over 100 just shows me that we don't know why some people live longer. Maybe I could have a general thing, a list of tickyboxes that they do that can have effects on life span: do you smoke? Etc. And then it tells them how the selected things are thought to affect life span, but then defaults to 120, and gives them the option to manually select an age, anyway.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Land that was once used to farm chocolate will instead be used to farm palm oil for biofuel, because that crop will be in higher demand, and more profitable. As a result, chocolate could become more rare and expensive. [[(Independent, 2010).|https://web.archive.org/web/20200408095904/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/chocolate-worth-its-weight-in-gold-2127874.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>
* Lab-grown meat will become a mature industry. This is a process that grows meat for food from cell cultures. It will be realistic and affordable for the public, and can be made without any animal suffering. Farming animals for meat will become less common. [[(The Guardian, 2013.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230191015/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/05/the-future-of-food]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_INTOXICANTS is false>>* If climate change continues in its current course, it will no longer be possible to grow wine grapes in many of the traditional regions. The wine industry will have to adapt, such as by engineering hardier varieties of grapes, or growing them indoors.
[[(FutureTimeline, 2013.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2050.htm#climate-change-wine-industry]]
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* Barley is a very heat-sensitive crop. If climate change continues in its current course, barley will become more expensive. Barley is used for many purposes, especially feeding livestock. <<if $CW_INTOXICANTS is false>>Barley is also used in making beer, so beer will become more expensive each year.<</if>> [[(AP News, 2018.)|https://apnews.com/3f7f6cab367a489fb41d728f8a69f63b]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2058>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, the places that have grown most of the world's cacao will no longer be suitable for growing them. The warmer climate could push cacao farms up into the mountains, into what had been wildlife preserves. People will still make chocolate, but it will cost more. [[(Snopes, 2018.)|https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chocolate-extinct-40-years]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2084>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>* Everywhere in the world, most meat will be grown from cell cultures. Few people will bring up animals for meat anymore.
[[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2080-2089.htm#meat]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2100>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>* If climate change proceeds on its current course, the ocean's pH level will have decreased below what it's been in 20 million years, which makes it difficult for shellfish to grow their shells. [[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2021>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The province of British Columbia has declared that by 2021, it will raise minimum wage to $15. [[(CBC.)|https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-s-new-minimum-wage-now-in-effect-1.4687188]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2035>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* According to projections by the consulting firm Accenture, in Canada, if progress continues at the same rate, employers might start to pay women as much as men by year 2035. [[(Benefits Canada, 2017.)|https://www.benefitscanada.com/news/canadas-gender-pay-gap-could-close-by-2035-study-94626]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2049>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* By this year, many species will go extinct in the wild all over the world, as part of the Holocene extinction event caused by humans. 70% of polar bears will be gone. [[(FutureTimeline.net, 2014.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231043321/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2045.htm]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2060>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* At some point between 2020 and 2060, the biggest earthquake in US history could damage every state on the west coast. This will happen because that region has the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a tectonic plate boundary that has a major quake about once in 300 years. This quake will be centered on Oregon state. It will cause a tsunami that will affect not only the continental coast, but will also reach to Hawaii. Caveat: be aware that earthqakes don't really happen on schedules. [[(Futuretimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2020.htm#earthquake]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2075>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, there will be changes in where different kinds of birds live in North America. This is also due to changes in how humans use the land. Some kinds of birds will increase their habitat range, so that we will see them in places we didn't before. That will happen with Gambel's quail, cactus wrens, and scissor-tailed flycatchers. Other birds will lose range due to habitat loss, such as baltimore orioles, common pelicans, and common loons. The bald eagle in particular will lose 75% of its range. [[(The Guardian, 2014.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230183542/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/north-america-birds-extinction-study-climate-change]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2080>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, polar bears will face extinction, due to the changes to their habitat. The bears will already be gone from Greenland and the northern coast of Canada. The last polar bears will have a hard time hunting and surviving, so they will be be thin and stressed. [[(FutureTimeline, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230193720/https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2015/04/3.htm]]
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<<if $INTEREST_SPORTS is false>>
* A study from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Management Center Innsbruck, Austria says that if climate change proceeds on its current course, then many places that used to host the winter Olympics will no longer get enough snow. This affects places in Canada, Germany, Russia, and the US. The study expects this will start to be seen from the 2050s and 2080s. [[(University of Waterloo, 2014.)|https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/climate-change-threatens-winter-olympics]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2021>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* During this year, in the US, "some economists predict the greatest number of baby boomers ... will retire," so there will be several times more job openings available (Vermond, //The Secret Life of Money//, p. 36). If you want to switch to a better job, this will be the best time for you to do so.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2027>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Gig workers will be in the majority in the US. [[(Source: Forbes, 2018.)|https://www.forbes.com/sites/bhaskarchakravorti/2018/06/06/the-future-of-work-isnt-all-bleak-for-women-heres-why/]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_CLOTHING is false>>
* In the US, half of the shopping malls will have closed. We will do most of our shopping for clothing and other supplies over the Internet.
[[(FutureTimeline, 2015.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200414183922/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2030.htm]] Most clothing stores will let you "try before you buy:" order clothes to try them on, and send them back if they don't fit. [[Source: Shaherazad Shoe Blog, 2018.|https://web.archive.org/web/20200420013533/https://www.shaherazad.com/blogs/news/the-future-of-fashion-how-we-will-shop-in-2030]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2049>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Due to advances in technology, the full-time work week might mean working only two days a week. [[(Standard.)|https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/skills/the-future-of-work-smart-working-technology-two-day-week-lord-mayor-a4103161.html]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Between 2025 and 2050, advances in technology will replace many jobs. Unemployment rates will be very high. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2025.htm#future-unemployment]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2055>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_WOMEN is false>>
* The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when white women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. At that rate, women of color will still not have equal pay. That would take until 2130 for black women, and 2224 for hispanic women. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2070>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_WOMEN is false>>
* Glassdoor projects that in the US, if progress continues at the same rate, employers might start paying white women as much as white men. [[(PR Newswire.)|https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/glassdoor-research-reveals-the-gender-pay-gap-still-exists-but-slowly-shrinking-in-the-us-uk-and-other-countries-300819171.html]] The Institute for Women's Policy Research has additional projections, saying that it would take decades longer for women of color: 2130 for black women, and 2224 for hispanic women. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2130>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_WOMEN is false>>
* The Institute for Women's Policy Research predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when black women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. At that rate, hispanic women will still not have equal pay until 2224. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2224>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_WOMEN is false>>
* The Institute for Women's Policy Research predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when hispanic women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2234>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_WOMEN is false>>
* In 2017, the World Economic Forum said that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then women will finally earn as much as men and have equal representation in the workplace by 2234.
[[(BBC, 2017.|https://web.archive.org/web/20200306174816/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-41844875]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2021>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_ARTS is false>>
* The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 will be held. Australia will also participate, so it's not just European countries. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2021]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2028>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_STARS is false>>
* You can experience a total solar eclipse in Australia and New Zealand.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2028]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $INTEREST_STARS is false>>
* You can see a total solar eclipse in southern Africa and Australia.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_November_25,_2030]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2039>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>
* The koala will face extinction. This is due to disease and habitat loss. [[(Telegraph, 2009.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191230191429/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6537179/Koalas-extinct-within-30-years-after-chlamydia-outbreak.html]] You can help save the koala through the [[Australian Koala Foundation, where you can "adopt" a koala or a tree.|https://www.savethekoala.com/]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* If climate change continues in its current course, by 2050, there could be 5,200 more heat-related deaths in Australia per year. [[(LiveScience, 2008.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081936/https://www.livescience.com/1433-timeline-earth-precarious-future.html]] Australia will no longer have winter anymore at all, and will instead have a "new summer" season with temperatures over 40ºC. [[(Australian National University, 2019.)|https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-climate-tool-identifies-end-of-winter-by-2050]] There will be less rain, and so Australia will have 10% to 50% more wildfires. [[(New Scientist, 2009.)|https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17864-no-rainforest-no-monsoon-get-ready-for-a-warmer-world/?ignored=irrelevant]]
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2064>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is false>>
* Leadbeater's opossum (also known as the fairy opossum) will be going extinct in the wild. This is due to climate change causing more forest fires in Australia. [[(The Guardian, 2014.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231033706/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/07/leadbeaters-possum-habitat-almost-certain-to-collapse-due-to-logging-fires]]
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<</if>> <center><h2>What countries do you call home?</h2></center> <br>
Which of these parts of the world do you live in... or where do you expect to live in? Put a checkmark in as many boxes as apply. (According to national borders as of this writing, in 2020.) Then I'll show you some predictions that are more relevant to you living in those countries, such as local events, policies about retirement age, and elections.
So far, the author of this file has only gathered predictions about events in a few countries, since this is a big project in any case. However, the intention is to be global.
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* The Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics]] The Summer Paralympics will also be held in Paris.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Paralympics]]
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* Back in 2017, the governments of France and the UK declared that they will take measures to fight air pollution by 2040. This includes that these governments will ban the sale of new diesel and petrol cars and vans starting in 2040
[[(BBC.)|https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40723581]]
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* The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. They were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics]]
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* Japan plans to shut down the last of its nuclear power plants by 2040.
[[(The Guardian, 2012.)|https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/14/japan-end-nuclear-power]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2046>>
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* Mount Sakurajima in Japan could have a major eruption between 2041 and 2046. However, volcanoes don't really erupt on predictable schedules. [[(BBC.)|https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37358316]]
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* Nearly all countries in Africa are members of the African Monetary Union. This year, these countries will start using a common currency, similar to the euro.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Monetary_Union]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2026>>
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* The African penguin (<i>Spheniscus demersus</i>) is expected to go extinct in the wild, if its population decline isn't stopped. They're endangered due to oil spills, competition from fisheries, and people taking their eggs as a delicacy. [[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_penguin#Conservation_status]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2030>>
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* You can see a total solar eclipse in southern Africa and Australia.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_November_25,_2030]]
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* South Africa's GDP is expected to reach around $810 billion. The country will still be the second-largest economy in Africa, after Nigeria. [[(Africa Reinvented.)|https://africareinvented.com/africa-biggest-economies/]]
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* By this year, many plant species will go extinct in the wild all over the world, as part of the Holocene extinction event caused by humans. South Africa's national flower, the King Protea, will go extinct. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231043321/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2045.htm]]
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* If climate change continues in its current course, the Caribbean coral reefs will be in danger of being wiped out. This is also caused by pollution from runoff, and harmful fishing practices. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200103055007/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2034.htm]] You can help protect the reefs by [[lots of small actions, such as avoiding fertilizers that pollute the runoff|https://www.epa.gov/coral-reefs/what-you-can-do-help-protect-coral-reefs]], or by supporting [[the Nature Conservancy's efforts to save them|https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/caribbean/stories-in-caribbean/caribbean-a-revolution-in-coral-conservation]].
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<</if>> <<set $fixed_event_year to 2028>>
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* The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will be completed. It is an underwater tunnel between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland.
[[Learn more on Wikipedia.|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2042>>
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* If US copyright law stays the same, then <i>The Diary of Anne Frank</i> will enter public domain. [[(Wikimedia Blog, 2016.)|https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/10/anne-frank-diary-removal/]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2080>>
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* A study from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Management Center Innsbruck, Austria says that if climate change proceeds on its current course, then many places that used to host the winter Olympics will no longer get enough snow. This affects places in Canada, Germany, Russia, and the US. The study expects this will start to be seen from the 2050s and 2080s. [[(University of Waterloo, 2014.)|https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/climate-change-threatens-winter-olympics]]
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* The longest performance of a single song will end, having played for 639 years. The song is Organ ^2/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible), composed by John Milton Cage Jr., performed on an organ in St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany. [[Learn more on FutureTimeline.net.|https://www.futuretimeline.net/the-far-future-2300-2999.htm#as-slow-as-possible]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2028>>
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* A study by Creative Investment Research projects that only four or five African-American-owned financial institutions may still be open. [[Learn more on American Banker: "Timeless Lessons from the First Black Woman to Start a Bank."|https://www.americanbanker.com/news/timeless-lessons-from-the-first-black-woman-to-start-a-bank]]
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2049>>
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* By this year, many plant species will go extinct in the wild all over the world, as part of the Holocene extinction event caused by humans. In South America, nearly half the Amazon rainforest will be destroyed, causing the extinction of more than 2,000 species of trees. [[(FutureTimeline.net.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20191231043321/https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2045.htm]] The Rainforest Foundation, which partners with Indigenous peoples' communities and organizations, says that the main thing is to get governments to create laws that protect the Amazon, though they have [[a list of actions that people like us can do, too|https://rainforestfoundation.org/engage/10-things-you-can-do/]]. Here is [[a list of organizations working to protect the Amazon|https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/organizations-donate-amazon-rainforest/]], many of which work with and prioritize the Indigenous people who live there.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2050>>
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* Around year 2000, there were about 6,000 living languages. By year 2050, about 3,000 languages are expected to have gone extinct. This outcome can be changed, because saving endangered languages is possible through education, community action, and connecting with elders. (Michael Norton, <i>365 Ways to Change the World</i>, 2005, p. 55.) As of 2020, through the language-learning app, [[Mango|https://mangolanguages.com/available-languages]], you can learn these endangered languages: Chaldean Aramaic, Cherokee, Dzongkha, Hawaiian, Irish, Potawatomi, Scottish Gaelic, Tuvan, and Yiddish.
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* The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when white women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. At that rate, women of color will still not have equal pay. That would take until 2130 for black women, and 2224 for hispanic women. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2130>>
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* The Institute for Women's Policy Research predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when black women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. At that rate, hispanic women will still not have equal pay until 2224. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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<<set $fixed_event_year to 2224>>
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<<if $INTEREST_WOMEN is false>>
* The Institute for Women's Policy Research predicts that if progress continues at the same slow rate, then this will be when hispanic women in the US will finally begin to have equal pay with white men. [[(IWPR, 2019.)|https://web.archive.org/web/20200307074051/https://iwpr.org/issue/employment-education-economic-change/pay-equity-discrimination/]] Worker's unions could bring equality sooner. Try the [[Industrial Workers of the World|https://iww.org]], which is a union for every kind of worker, everywhere.
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* Experts in the field of 3D printing anticipate that sometime during this decade, we will see 3D printing used to create custom prosthetics for use in the Paralympics. [[(All3DP.)|https://all3dp.com/2/future-of-3d-printing-a-glimpse-at-next-generation-making/]]
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<</if>><center><h2>Content Warnings</h2></center> <br>
Any future includes events that could be upsetting. I have no way to avoid that some predictions refer to climate change and your mortality. I offer you the choice to opt out of predictions about some other things. If there is anything in the following list that would make you uncomfortable, then you can put a checkmark next to them, so I'll filter them out.
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<label><<checkbox "$CW_DOOM" false true>> Asteroid strikes, and some other worldwide issues that could cause the extinction of humankind or most life on earth, other than climate change </label>
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<label><<checkbox "$CW_SEX_ED" false true>> Sex education, which will be about like what you might see in health class, about family planning and body changes </label>
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<label><<checkbox "$CW_INTOXICANTS" false true>> Alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational intoxicants </label>
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<label><<checkbox "$CW_TRAGEDIES" false true>> Tragic historic events and their long-term aftermath, such as of genocides or assassinations that have already happened in the past </label>
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<label><<checkbox "$CW_EXTINCT" false true>> Extinctions of animals and plants</label>
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<label><<checkbox "$CW_EPIDEMIC" false true>> Epidemics, such as AIDS, COVID-19, and Ebola</label>
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My goal is to help you feel empowered to think about your future in a new way, not to bum you out! I hope that giving you the ability to opt in or out of seeing certain kinds of predictions will help make this a positive and exciting experience for you. [[Once you are done making those choices, click here.|cwConfirm]]
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<center><h2>Content Warnings</h2></center> <br>
Be aware that no matter how many of these topics you opt out of, I will likely still show some information that could be troubling to you, even of the very kind that you opted out of. You'll just see less of it. <<linkappend "Let's review your choices about content warnings together, and how they could affect my predictions, if you like." t8n>>
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You opted out of seeing most content about worldwide issues, such as asteroid strikes. This means you may see fewer predictions.
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You opted in to potentially seeing content about worldwide issues, such as asteroid strikes. This means you will see more predictions.
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You opted out of seeing most content about sex. Be aware this means that you'll see few to no questions or predictions about family planning or certain aging changes. Those are important aspects of most people's lives. Are you sure you don't want to see them in our conversation about your future?
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You opted in to seeing more content about sex. You'll see more questions (including some rather personal ones) and predictions (also potentially personal) about family planning and certain aging changes. Those are important aspects of most people's lives, so it's useful to show them in your future. Are you sure you feel comfortable with having such a personal conversation right now?
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<<if $CW_FOOD is true>>You opted out of seeing most content about food. This means you may see slightly fewer questions and predictions.
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You opted in to potentially seeing content about food. This means you may see slightly more questions and predictions.
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You opted out of seeing most content about recreational intoxicants. This means you may see slightly fewer predictions.
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You opted in to potentially seeing content about recreational intoxicants. This means you may see slightly more predictions.
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You opted out of seeing most content about historic tragedies. This means you may see fewer predictions.
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You opted out of seeing most content about historic tragedies. This means you may see fewer predictions.
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You opted out of seeing most content about extinctions. This means you may see fewer predictions.
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You opted in to potentially seeing content about extinctions. This means you may see more predictions.
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You opted out of seeing most content about epidemics. This means you may see fewer predictions.
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If you're not comfortable with your choices so far, then you can go back and change them by clicking the backward arrow in the side panel. (You can use that button to redo any choices you make during this wizard.) Otherwise, if those choices are okay with you, so you feel ready to face your future with courage and curiosity right now, then let's [[talk about this year|SetCurrentYear]]. Okay, you're planning to have children sometime in the future. Have you thought about when?
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If you're planning on having biological children sometime in your life, then you'll want to find time to do so well before you could hit menopause. The average age of menopause is 51 (which is <<print 51 + $user_birth_year - $current_year>> years in your future), but it could happen at a different age than that for you. The main predictor for your menopause is the age at which your parent reached menopause. Some other factors can affect it, such as ethnicity, smoking habits, and certain health issues. Surprisingly, the age you went through puberty doesn't help predict it at all.
<a href="https://www.webmd.com/menopause/features/menopause-age-prediction" target="_blank">Learn more about how to predict your age of menopause on WebMD.</a>
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If you're planning on having biological children sometime in your life, then you'll want to find time to do so well before you could reach male menopause (andropause). We don't know much about how to predict when those hormonal changes might happen. It tends to be a slow change, over the ages of about 40 to 70 (which means <<print 40 + $user_birth_year - $current_year>> to <<print 70 + $user_birth_year - $current_year>> years in your future), as your body gradually produces less testosterone. <a href="https://www.webmd.com/men/guide/male-menopause" target="_blank">Learn more about male menopause on WebMD</a>.
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With that in mind, when are you having children?
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* Whoa, never mind! I don't have a child, and I'm not really planning on having a child.
* I've already had all the children that I intend to have.
* I already have a child or children, and I plan to have my next child or children in the future.
* I don't have any children yet, and I'm planning on having my first child or children. <!-- This passage is included each year, to state which generation is born that year. -->
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* The Greatest Generation is born between about 1901 through 1928.
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* The Silent Generation is born between about 1925 through 1946.
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<<elseif $timeline_heading eq 1943>>
* The Baby Boom generation is born between 1943 and 1966. They overlap with Generation X, who are born as early as about 1960.
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* Generation X is born between about 1960 through 1985. They overlap with Generation Y (1980-2004) and the Baby Boom generation (1943-1966).
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* Members of Generation Y are born between about 1980 to 2004. They are also called Millennials, because many of them come of age around the turn of the millennium (year 2000). Gen Y overlaps with Generation X (1960-1985) and Generation Z (1993-2020).
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* Generation Z includes people born between 1993 and 2020. They overlap with Generation Y, who are born between about 1980 and 2004. Gen Y and Z are considered "digital natives," having grown up with computers and video games.
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Silent 1925 - 1946 ...21 years long
Boomers 1943 - 1966 ...23 years long
X 1960 - 1985 ...25 years long
Y 1980 - 2004 ...24 years long
Z 1993 - 2020 ...27 years long
Alpha 2010 - 2033 ...23 years long
Beta 2034 - 2057 ...23 years long
Gamma 2058 - 2081 ...23 years long
Delta 2082 - 2105 ...23 years long
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Children: (earliest birthdate + 5) to (most recent birthdate + 14)
Teens: (earliest birthdate + 15) to (most recent birthdate + 19)
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Teens 1916 - 1947
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1901 through 1928 are the years that members of the Greatest Generation are born. The generation was 27 years long. This means that the older members of that generation reach young adulthood during this period, while the youngest members are just babies.
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During the 1940s, members of the Greatest Generation range in age from childhood to middle age.
During the 1950s, members of the Greatest Generation range in age from young adulthood to middle age.
During the 1960s and 1970s, members of the Greatest Generation range in age from young adulthood to old age.
During the 1980s and 1990s, members of the Greatest Generation range from middle age to old age.
By the first decade of the 2000s through the 2020s, members of the Greatest Generation are all elders.
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Children 1930 - 1960
Teens 1940 - 1965
YA 1945 - 2016
Middle age 1970 - 2011
Old 1991 - 2046
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<br><<linkappend "A birth year of Generation Beta. Gen Alpha are in their early teens to 20s. Gen Z are in their late teens to 40s. Gen Y are in their 30s to 50s. Gen X are in their 40s to 70s. Boomers are in their 70s to 90s. The Silent Generation are in their 80s to older. The Greatest Generation are in their 90s to older. (Click for more info about generations.)" t8n>> Gen Beta is born between approximately 2025 and 2057. (The Greek alphabet is one proposed schema for naming the generations of the 21st century.) Betas are the children of Gen Z (born from about 1993 to 2020). Betas grow up in a world where the technology of 3D printing is familiar. Note that divisions between generations are overlapping and cultural, not just chronological. [[See Egypt Urnash's visual timeline of generations from 1900 to 2020.|https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2019/12/07/ok-boomer-a-concise-guide-to-the-generations-living-in-early-21st-century-america/]]<</linkappend>><br><<linkappend "A birth year of Generation Delta." t8n>>Gen Delta is born between approximately 2082 and 2105. (The Greek alphabet is one proposed schema for naming the generations of the 21st century.) Note that divisions between generations are overlapping and cultural, not just chronological.<</linkappend>><br><<linkappend "A birth year of Generation Gamma." t8n>>The generation that could be called Gamma could be born between approximately 2058 and 2081. (The Greek alphabet is one proposed schema for naming the generations of the 21st century.) Note that divisions between generations are overlapping and cultural, not just chronological.[[See Egypt Urnash's visual timeline of generations from 1900 to 2020.|https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2019/12/07/ok-boomer-a-concise-guide-to-the-generations-living-in-early-21st-century-america/]]<</linkappend>><br><center><h2>Would you be okay with health questions?</h2></center> <br>
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It's important for you to take good care of your health so that you live a long life. May I ask you some questions about your health, so I can help you with predictions and plans for your future? Head's up, some of the questions are kind of personal.
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<li> [[Sure, go ahead, I'm comfortable with talking about my health.|Tetanus]]</li>
<li> [[No thanks, I don't want to talk about my health right now.|Interests]]</li>
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<center><h2>Your interests</h2></center> <br>
Okay, I will show you predictions about your interests,
<<if $INTEREST_ANIMALS is true>>animals, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_ARTS is true>>the arts, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_CLOTHING is true>>clothing, wearable technology, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_FAMILYPLAN is true>>family planning, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_FOOD is true>>food, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_HEALTH is true>>health, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_HISTORY is true>>history, time capsules, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_DISABILITY is true>>disability, neurodiversity, mental illness, and chronic illness issues, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_LGBT is true>>LGBT issues, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_POC is true>>issues of POC and ethnic minority groups, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_WOMEN is true>>women's rights, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_PLANTS is true>>plants, forests, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_SPACE_EXPLORATION is true>>space exploration, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_SPORTS is true>>sports, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_STARS is true>>stargazing, eclipses, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_TRAVEL is true>>travel, transportation, destinations, <</if>>
<<if $INTEREST_WORK is true>>business, work, the job market, <</if>>
and other events. [[Next.|Countries]] <center>''Disclaimer''</center> <br>
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If you agree with the above, then let's look at [[content warnings|ContentWarnings]].<!-- This will be a checklist suggesting some things that could be the user's legacies. This will help users think about things they leave after their death, other than children and money. However, maybe this should be part of the bucket list passage? Or should certain entries be taken out of the bucket list and put into this one? The bucket list is awfully long and overwhelming!
<center><h2>Legacy</h2></center> <br>
Your future is not just what happens in your lifetime. Many kinds of things you do will leave physical effects in the world that can outlast you. Your everyday life can effect the environment, economy, and society in ways that you might not even see as they spread out from you. Many things you can do can be remembered. Even small things you did and said-- like when you were there for a friend, and said something they needed to hear-- can shape how other people think and act for the rest of their lives, and they can pass that on to others, and so on. This echo of you can live on in those who remember you. Some people feel that leaving a legacy matters a lot, and can even be a source of worry. For other people, their legacy is not something they think about, because what happens after their lifetimes won't have a direct effect on them. Either way, my purpose is to help you think far ahead, and feel empowered. <br><br>
Below are just a few examples of different kinds of legacies. Put a checkmark next to as many of them as you have done, are doing, or want to do. <br><br>
* having children
* never having children (lessening my family's carbon footprint and our impact on the world population can also be a legacy. However, keep in mind that almost all the damage being done to the environment is being done by a handful of horribly wealthy people, not by the world population. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/26/16356524/the-population-question )
* be a teacher, mentor, professor, or expert
* charitable donation
* bench
* publish book, music, or other arts
* contribute to a field of science
* register as an organ donor
* reduce my carbon footprint by riding a bicycle, and other environmentally friendly choices
* be a good friend who listens and is kind and supportive
* I don't especially want to leave a legacy. Not everybody needs to be historic or a celebrity, which most people aren't. I'm fine with it if I'm not remembered a long time after I'm gone. That's normal, and that's okay.
-->
<!--
This passage is included in the Interests2 passage, if the user said they were interested in $INTEREST_HEALTH in the Interests passage.
-->
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2021>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* There will be results of a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine. [[(NBC.)|https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/hiv-vaccine-2021-leading-experts-optimistic-about-ongoing-trials-n1092021?]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2022>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* In 2022 or 2025, a generic form will become available of a certain medicine that protects a person against getting infected with HIV. [[(StatNews, 2020.)|https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/26/newest-prep-pill-hiv-prevention-fuel-progress-or-profits/]]
<br><</if>>
<</if>><center><h2>Tetanus shots</h2></center> <br>
Your grownups don't want you to get tetanus shots? I won't give you any reminders about when you would get booster shots, then.<br><br>
These articles from the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)|https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html]], [[WebMD|https://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20060706/study-vaccines-dont-cause-autism]], [[Time|https://time.com/3827309/vaccines-autism-siblings/]], and [[The Smithsonian|https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/vaccines-dont-cause-autism-24764464/]] say that no reliable study has ever shown a link between vaccines and autism.<br><br>
These articles on [[NewScientist|https://www.newscientist.com/article/2193937-can-teenagers-get-vaccinated-without-their-parents-permission/]], [[WebMD|https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20190215/ohio-teen-gets-himself-vaccinated-inspires-others]],[[HealthLine|https://www.healthline.com/health-news/at-what-age-should-children-be-allowed-to-make-their-own-medical-decisions]] and [[Reason|https://reason.com/2019/05/19/meet-the-teens-who-want-to-get-vaccinated-against-their-parents-wishes/]] tell about some young people who choose to get vaccines. Those articles say that-- depending on a young person's exact age, and where they live-- a person under 18 might not need permission from a parent or grownup to get vaccines. The articles tell about some places that young people contact to get guidance on that. This information is in public where anybody can find it. I am not giving and cannot give you legal or health guidance. What you do with your own body is your decision.
<br><br>
<<if $CW_SEX_ED is false>>
[[Next.|Nosy]]
<<else>>
[[Next.|Interests]]
<</if>><center><h2>Tetanus shots</h2></center> <br>
It's okay to skip health questions if you're not comfortable talking about them. I won't give you any reminders about when you would get booster shots.
<<if $CW_SEX_ED is false>>
[[Next.|Nosy]]
<<else>>
[[Next.|Interests]]
<</if>><!--
This passage is for saying how many years into the future each year heading is. Don't rearrange any sections! They're in this order for a reason! This is finished and functions correctly. I might add some randomized flavor text later, to make it less monotonous.
-->
<<if $current_year eq $timeline_heading>>
* That's this year.
<br>
<<elseif ($current_year - 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Heading is exactly 1 less than current.
For example, imagine current is 2020, and heading is 2019.
Heading is in past.
I don't think it's possible for this to show up in gameplay, so long as Predictor is only for predicting the future. However, if I later decide to include a timeline of the user's entire life, past and future, then this will be used.
-->
* That's last year.
<br>
<<elseif ($current_year + 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Heading is exactly 1 more than current.
For example, current is 2020, and heading is 2021.
Heading is in future.
-->
* That's next year.
<br>
<<elseif ($current_year - 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Heading is exactly 2 less than current.
For example, imagine current is 2020, and heading is 2018.
Heading is in past.
Eq statement needs to stay separate from gte or lte statements to avoid glitches.
Current year, minus 2 years, exactly matches the heading.
I don't think it's possible for this to show up in gameplay, so long as Predictor is only for predicting the future.
-->
* That was two years ago.
<br>
<<elseif ($current_year + 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Heading is exactly 2 more than current.
For example, imagine current is 2020, and heading is 2022.
Heading is in future.
Eq statement needs to stay separate from gte or lte statements to avoid glitches.
-->
* That's two years in the future.
<br>
<<elseif ($current_year + 2) gt $timeline_heading>>
<!--
For example, imagine the current year is 2020.
(2020 + 2 = 2022) is greater than any heading from 2021 or earlier.
The heading is more than 2 years in the past.
Eq statement needs to stay separate from gte or lte statements to avoid glitches.
I don't think it's possible for this to show up in gameplay, so long as Predictor is only for predicting the future.
-->
* That's
<<print $current_year - $timeline_heading>>
years ago.
<!-- For example, if the current year is 2020, and the heading is 1994, this might evaluate as "That's 2020 - 1994 = 26 years ago." -->
<br>
<<else>>
<!--
As far as I can tell, "else" should cover all the rest of the scenarios, which are all the normal ones: saying how many years in the future the year heading is.
-->
* That's
<<print $timeline_heading - $current_year>>
years in the future.
<!-- For example, if the current year is 2020, and the heading is 2040, this might evaluate as "That's 20 years in the future." -->
<br>
<</if>><!-- I haven't set up a passage for making predictions about human friends yet. -->
<!-- For adding the first important person. -->
<center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
Please type that person's name in this box, and then press "enter."<br>
<<textbox "$FRIEND_1" Orion [[Friend1Bdate]] autofocus>>
<!-- I haven't set up a passage for making predictions about human friends yet. -->
<center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
Next, please type the birth year of $FRIEND_1 in this box, and then press "enter."<br>
<<textbox "$FRIEND_1_BDATE" 1985 [[Friend1Age]] autofocus>><!-- I haven't set up a passage for making predictions about human friends yet. -->
<<set $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "unspecified">>
<center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
<!-- This changes the birth year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $FRIEND_1_BDATE to parseInt($FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
I see, so $FRIEND_1 was born in $FRIEND_1_BDATE.
<<if $current_year eq $FRIEND_1_BDATE>>
This is the year that $FRIEND_1 is born.
<<elseif $current_year eq ($FRIEND_1_BDATE - 1)>>
It will be 1 more year until $FRIEND_1 will be born.
<<elseif $current_year eq ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 1)>>
This is the year that $FRIEND_1 turns 1 year old.
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_BDATE lt $current_year>>
This is the year that $FRIEND_1 turns
<<print $current_year - $FRIEND_1_BDATE>>
years old.
<<elseif $current_year lt ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2)>>
It will be
<<print $FRIEND_1_BDATE - $current_year>>
more years until $FRIEND_1 will be born.
<</if>>
<br><br>
Is $FRIEND_1 a human being, or a pet animal? (In a strictly physical sense, that is. I'm being specific about that, because the author of this wizard is friends with a lot of furries and such.) This affects how I calculate lifespan.
<ul>
<li> [[A human being.|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 122, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "human"]]</li>
<li> [[Physically human, generally speaking, but identifies as another kind of creature.|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 122, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "human"]]</li>
<li> [[Literally some other kind of animal than a human.|Friend1Animal]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
<!-- This changes the birth year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN to parseInt($FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN)>>
<!-- If the user manually set the current year, then this changes the current year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN to parseInt($FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN)>>
If all goes for the best, then $FRIEND_1 could live to be $FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN. Do you have another person close to you, who you would like to include in my predictions?
<ul>
<li> [[Yes, another.|Friend2Name]] </li>
<li> [[No, that will do.|HealthQs]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
What kind of hooved animal is $FRIEND_1?
<ul>
<li> [[Goat - usually lives about 18 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 22.|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 22, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "goat"]] </li>
<li> [[Pig - usually about 15 to 20 years. Guinness World Record was 23.|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 23, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "pig"]] </li>
<li> [[Horse - usually about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 51.|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 51, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "horse"]] </li>
<li> [[Pony - usually about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 56.|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 56, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "pony"]] </li>
<li> [[Donkey - usually about 30 to 50 years. The Guinness World Record was 54.|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 54, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "donkey"]] </li>
<li> [[Some other kind of animal than the above.|AnimalOther]] </li><!-- I haven't set up variables for how long animals live yet. -->
<!-- This passage leads to a dead end. -->
<center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
What kind of pet animal is $FRIEND_1?
<ul>
<li> [[Dog - usually lives up to about 13 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 29|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 29, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "dog"]]</li>
<li> [[Cat - usually lives up to about 16 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 38|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 38, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "cat"]]</li>
<li> [[Bird|Bird]]</li>
<li> [[An animal with hooves...|Hoof]]</li>
<li> [[Some other kind of animal than the above|AnimalOther]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
In general, what kind of bird is $FRIEND_1?
<ul>
<li> [[A domesticated bird, such as a chicken or pigeon|DomesticBird]]</li>
<li> [[A wild parrot|Parrot]]</li>
<li> [[A kind of bird not listed here|AnimalOther]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
How many years does an animal like $FRIEND1 tend to live? Please type the number of years, and then press "enter."<br>
<<textbox "$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN" 7 [[Friend2Query]] autofocus>><center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
What kind of domesticated bird is $FRIEND_1?
<ul>
<li> [[Society finch - lives about 4 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 4, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "society finch"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic muscovy duck - lives as much as about 9 years, but the record was 27|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 27, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "duck"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic turkey - lives about 10 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 10, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "turkey"]]</li>
<li> [[Barbary dove - lives about 12 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 12, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "barbary dove"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic canary - lives as much as about 14 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 14, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "canary"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic guineafowl - lives about 15 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 15, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "guineafowl"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic rock pigeon - lives as much as about 15 years, but the Guinness World Record is 25|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 25, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "rock pigeon"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic goose - usually lives about 15 years, but the Guinness World Record was 49|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 49, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "goose"]]</li>
<li> [[Chicken - the Guinness World Record for the oldest chicken was 16. The author of this wizard has heard unverified anecdotes about ones 30 years old. Usually chickens lack the opportunity and the documentation to prove the full potential of their lifespan. Maybe yours could beat the record!|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 16, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "chicken"]]</li>
<li> [[Some other kind of domesticated bird|AnimalOther]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
What kind of parrot is $FRIEND_1?
<ul>
<li> [[Lorikeet, or parrotlet - may live as much as about 20 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 20, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "lorikeet"]]</li>
<li> [[Green-cheek conure - may live as much as about 25 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 25, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "conure"]]</li>
<li> [[Caique, cockatiel, eclectus parrot, lovebird, monk parrot, Senegal parrot, or sun conure - may live as much as about 30 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 30, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "cockatiel"]]</li>
<li> [[Meyer's parrot - may live as much as about 35 years old|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 35, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "Meyers parrot"]]</li>
<li> [[Blue-and-yellow macaw, cockatoo, or hyacinth macaw - may live as much as about 60 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 60, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "hyacinth macaw"]]</li>
<li> [[Green winged macaw - may live as much as about 70 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 70, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "green winged macaw"]]</li>
<li> [[African grey, or Major Mitchell's cockatoo - may live as much as about 80 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 80, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "African grey, or Major Mitchell's cockatoo"]]</li>
<li> [[Kakapo - may live as much as about 90 years|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 90, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "kakapo"]]</li>
<li> [[White-crested macaw - the oldest recorded one lived to 112|Friend2Query][$FRIEND_1_LIFESPAN = 112, $FRIEND_1_SPECIES = "White-crested macaw"]]</li>
<li> [[Some other kind of parrot|AnimalOther]]</li>
</ul><!-- I haven't set up a passage for making predictions about human friends yet. -->
<!-- For adding the 2nd important person. -->
<center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
Please type the next person's name in this box, and then press "enter."<br>
<<textbox "$FRIEND_2" Orion [[Friend2Bdate]] autofocus>>
<!-- I haven't set up a passage for making predictions about friends yet. -->
<center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
Next, please type the birth year of $FRIEND_2 in this box, and then press "enter."<br>
<<textbox "$FRIEND_2_BDATE" 1985 [[Friend2Age]] autofocus>><!-- I haven't set up a passage for making predictions about human friends yet. -->
<center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
<!-- This changes the birth year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $FRIEND_2_BDATE to parseInt($FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
I see, so $FRIEND_2 was born in $FRIEND_2_BDATE.
<<if $current_year eq $FRIEND_2_BDATE>>
This is the year that $FRIEND_2 is born.
<<elseif $current_year eq ($FRIEND_2_BDATE - 1)>>
It will be 1 more year until $FRIEND_2 will be born.
<<elseif $current_year eq ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 1)>>
This is the year that $FRIEND_2 turns 1 year old.
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_BDATE lt $current_year>>
This is the year that $FRIEND_2 turns
<<print $current_year - $FRIEND_2_BDATE>>
years old.
<<elseif $current_year lt ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2)>>
It will be
<<print $FRIEND_2_BDATE - $current_year>>
more years until $FRIEND_2 will be born.
<</if>>
<br><br>
Is $FRIEND_2 a human being, or a pet animal? (In a strictly physical sense, that is. I'm being specific about that, because the author of this wizard is friends with a lot of furries and such.) This affects how I calculate lifespan.
<ul>
<li> [[A human being.|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 122, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "human"]]</li>
<li> [[Physically human, generally speaking, but identifies as another kind of creature.|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 122, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "human"]]</li>
<li> [[Literally some other kind of animal than a human.|Friend2Animal]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
<!-- This changes the birth year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN to parseInt($FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN)>>
<!-- If the user manually set the current year, then this changes the current year from a string to a variable. -->
<<set $FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN to parseInt($FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN)>>
If all goes for the best, then $FRIEND_2 could live to be $FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN.
<!--
Do you have another person close to you, who you would like to include in my predictions?
<ul>
<li> Yes, another. </li>
<li> [[No, that will do.|HealthQs]]</li>
</ul>
-->
I can only keep track of two beings in addition to you. [[Let's move on to questions about you that will help me predict your future.|HealthQs]]<center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
What kind of pet animal is $FRIEND_2?
<ul>
<li> [[Dog - usually lives up to about 13 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 29|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 29, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "dog"]]</li>
<li> [[Cat - usually lives up to about 16 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 38|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 38, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "cat"]]</li>
<li> [[Bird|Bird2]]</li>
<li> [[An animal with hooves...|Hoof2]]</li>
<li> [[Some other kind of animal|AnimalOther2]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
In general, what kind of bird is $FRIEND_2?
<ul>
<li> [[A domesticated bird, such as a chicken or pigeon|DomesticBird2]]</li>
<li> [[A wild parrot|Parrot2]]</li>
<li> [[A kind of bird not listed here|AnimalOther2]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
What kind of hooved animal is $FRIEND_2?
<ul>
<li> [[Goat - usually lives about 18 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 22.|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 22, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "goat"]] </li>
<li> [[Pig - usually about 15 to 20 years. Guinness World Record was 23.|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 23, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "pig"]] </li>
<li> [[Horse - usually about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 51.|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 51, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "horse"]] </li>
<li> [[Pony - usually about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 56.|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 56, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "pony"]] </li>
<li> [[Donkey - usually about 30 to 50 years. The Guinness World Record was 54.|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 54, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "donkey"]] </li>
<li> [[Some other kind of hooved animal.|AnimalOther2]] </li><center><h2>Who shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
How many years does an animal like $FRIEND_2 tend to live? You might open another browser window and do a web search for the world record for oldest animal of that kind. Please type the number of years, and then press "enter."<br>
<<textbox "$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN" 7 [[Friend3Query]] autofocus>><center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
What kind of domesticated bird is $FRIEND_2?
<ul>
<li> [[Society finch - lives about 4 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 4, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "society finch"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic muscovy duck - lives as much as about 9 years, but the record was 27|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 27, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "domestic muscovy duck"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic turkey - lives about 10 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 10, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "domestic turkey"]]</li>
<li> [[Barbary dove - lives about 12 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 12, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "barbary dove"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic canary - lives as much as about 14 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 14, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "domestic canary"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic guineafowl - lives about 15 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 15, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "domestic guineafowl"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic rock pigeon - lives as much as about 15 years, but the Guinness World Record is 25|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 25, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "domestic rock pigeon"]]</li>
<li> [[Domestic goose - usually lives about 15 years, but the Guinness World Record was 49|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 49, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "domestic goose"]]</li>
<li> [[Chicken - the Guinness World Record for the oldest chicken was 16. The author of this wizard has heard unverified anecdotes about ones 30 years old. Usually chickens lack the opportunity and the documentation to prove the full potential of their lifespan. Maybe yours could beat the record!|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 16, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "chicken"]]</li>
<li> [[Some other kind of domesticated bird|AnimalOther2]]</li>
</ul><center><h2>Who else shares your future?</h2></center> <br>
What kind of parrot is $FRIEND_2?
<ul>
<li> [[Lorikeet, or parrotlet - may live as much as about 20 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 20, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "lorikeet or parrotlet"]]</li>
<li> [[Green-cheek conure - may live as much as about 25 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 25, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "green-cheek conure"]]</li>
<li> [[Caique, cockatiel, eclectus parrot, lovebird, monk parrot, Senegal parrot, or sun conure - may live as much as about 30 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 30, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "Caique, cockatiel, eclectus parrot, lovebird, monk parrot, Senegal parrot, or sun conure"]]</li>
<li> [[Meyer's parrot - may live as much as about 35 years old|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 35, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "Meyer's parrot"]]</li>
<li> [[Blue-and-yellow macaw, cockatoo, or hyacinth macaw - may live as much as about 60 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 60, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "blue-and-yellow macaw, cockatoo, or hyacinth macaw"]]</li>
<li> [[Green winged macaw - may live as much as about 70 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 70, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "green winged macaw"]]</li>
<li> [[African grey, or Major Mitchell's cockatoo - may live as much as about 80 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 80, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "African grey, or Major Mitchell's cockatoo"]]</li>
<li> [[Kakapo - may live as much as about 90 years|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 90, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "kakapo"]]</li>
<li> [[White-crested macaw - the oldest recorded one lived to 112|Friend3Query][$FRIEND_2_LIFESPAN = 112, $FRIEND_2_SPECIES = "white-crested macaw"]]</li>
<li> [[Some other kind of parrot|AnimalOther2]]</li>
</ul><!-- This passage is only about $FRIEND_1 either aging yearly, or approaching their birth. Don't rearrange any sections! This passage is included in the Output passage, and it completely works!
-->
<<if $FRIEND_1_BDATE eq $timeline_heading>>
<!-- Friend's birth year exactly matches the year -->
* This is the year that $FRIEND_1 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE - 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, minus one, matches the year.
Friend will be born exactly one year in the future.
For example, if friend is born in 2025, and the year is 1 year earlier, 2024.
-->
* One more year until $FRIEND_1 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, plus 1 year, exactly matches the year.
Friend was born exactly one year in the past.
For example, friend was born in 2025, and this is one year later, 2026.
-->
* $FRIEND_1 turns 1 year old.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE - 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, minus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
Friend has 2 years until they will be born.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 - 2 = 2023 eq 2027? False, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 - 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the friend was born 2 years ago, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "friend was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* Two years until $FRIEND_1 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, plus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
Friend was born exactly 2 years ago.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 + 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 + 2 = 2031 eq 2027? False, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the friend will be born 2 years in the future, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "friend was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* $FRIEND_1 turns two years old.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2) gt $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend was born at least or exactly two years in the future.
Friend's birth year, plus 2 years, is greater than (BUT NOT EQUAL TO, which would introduce a glitch) the timeline heading.
-->
* There are
<<print $FRIEND_1_BDATE - $timeline_heading>>
more years until $FRIEND_1 is born.
<br>
<<else>>
<!--
Friend was born any other number of years in the past.
This is for the friend aging yearly, but with LESS flavor text. We want to avoid glitched-out remarks, such as telling a 3-year-old or a cat not to drink and drive!
It's important to evaluate whether the friend was born in the future before we evaluate this if-statement, or else this if-statement will manage to apply to future birthdates, resulting in glitchy phrasings.
-->
*
$FRIEND_1
<<print either (
"turns",
"becomes",
"is",
"reaches")>>
<<print $timeline_heading - $FRIEND_1_BDATE>><<print either (
" years old",
" years",
" in age",
" of age",
" in this year",
"")>><<print either
(".", ".", ".", "<nowiki>!</nowiki>", "...")>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is not "human">>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is not "unspecified">>
<<include [[Friend1AnimalAgingEvents]]>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<br>
<</if>><!-- This passage is only about $FRIEND_2 either aging yearly, or approaching their birth. Don't rearrange any sections! This passage is included in the Output passage, and it completely works!
-->
<<if $FRIEND_2_BDATE eq $timeline_heading>>
<!-- Friend's birth year exactly matches the year -->
* This is the year that $FRIEND_2 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE - 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, minus one, matches the year.
Friend will be born exactly one year in the future.
For example, if friend is born in 2025, and the year is 1 year earlier, 2024.
-->
* One more year until $FRIEND_2 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, plus 1 year, exactly matches the year.
Friend was born exactly one year in the past.
For example, friend was born in 2025, and this is one year later, 2026.
-->
* $FRIEND_2 turns one year old.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE - 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, minus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
Friend has 2 years until they will be born.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 - 2 = 2023 eq 2027? False, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 - 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the friend was born 2 years ago, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "friend was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* Two years until $FRIEND_2 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, plus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
Friend was born exactly 2 years ago.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 + 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 + 2 = 2031 eq 2027? False, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the friend will be born 2 years in the future, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "friend was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* $FRIEND_2 turns two years old.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2) gt $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend was born at least or exactly two years in the future.
Friend's birth year, plus 2 years, is greater than (BUT NOT EQUAL TO, which would introduce a glitch) the timeline heading.
-->
*
<<print $FRIEND_2_BDATE - $timeline_heading>>
more years until $FRIEND_2 is born.
<br>
<<else>>
<!--
Friend was born any other number of years in the past.
This is for the friend aging yearly, but with LESS flavor text. We want to avoid glitched-out remarks, such as telling a 3-year-old or a cat not to drink and drive!
It's important to evaluate whether the friend was born in the future before we evaluate this if-statement, or else this if-statement will manage to apply to future birthdates, resulting in glitchy phrasings.
-->
*
$FRIEND_2
<<print either (
"turns",
"becomes",
"is",
"reaches")>>
<<print $timeline_heading - $FRIEND_2_BDATE>><<print either (
" years old",
" years",
" in age",
" of age",
" in this year",
"")>><<print either
(".", ".", ".", "<nowiki>!</nowiki>", "...")>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is not "human">>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is not "unspecified">>
<<include [[Friend2AnimalAgingEvents]]>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<br>
<</if>>A wizard for reviewing your past and planning your futureby [[Orion Scribner|https://www.frameacloud.com]]<!--
This displays within the Friend1AgeEachYear passage, if the friend was born in the past, and then if the friend's species is not human.
-->
<<if $timeline_heading eq (4 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "society finch">>
A society finch usually lives about 4 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (5 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "donkey">>
A donkey reaches full adulthood between the ages of 3 and 5 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "African grey">>
An African grey reaches sexual maturity between the ages of 3 and 5 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (7 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "horse">>
A horse reaches full adulthood between the ages of 5 and 7 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (9 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "duck">>
A domestic muscovy duck lives as much as about 9 years, but the record was 27.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (10 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "turkey">>
A domestic turkey lives about 10 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (12 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "barbary dove">>
A barbary dove lives about 12 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (13 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "dog">>
A dog usually lives up to about 13 years. The Guinness World Record lived to 29. I'm going to keep showing you how much older your dog might live to be, if you would be so fortunate as to reach that record, too.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (14 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "canary">>
A domestic canary lives as much as about 14 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (15 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "guineafowl">>
A domestic guineafowl lives as much as about 15 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "rock pigeon">>
A domestic rock pigeon usually lives as much as about 15 years. The Guinness World Record is 25.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "goose">>
A domestic goose usually lives as much as about 15 years. The Guinness World Record was 49.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (16 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "cat">>
A cat usually lives up to about 16 years. The Guinness World Record lived to 38. I'm going to keep showing you how much older your cat might live to be, if you would be so fortunate as to reach that record, too.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "chicken">>
The Guinness World Record for the oldest chicken was 16. The author of this wizard has heard unverified anecdotes about ones 30 years old. Usually chickens lack the opportunity and the documentation to prove the full potential of their lifespan. Maybe $FRIEND_1 could beat that record!
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (18 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "goat">>
A goat usually lives about 18 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 22. I'm going to keep showing you how much older your goat might live to be, if you would be so fortunate as to reach that record, too.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (20 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "lorikeet">>
A bird like $FRIEND_1 usually lives as much as about 20 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (22 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "goat">>
A goat usually lives about 18 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 22.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (25 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "rock pigeon">>
A domestic rock pigeon usually lives as much as about 15 years. The Guinness World Record is 25.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "conure">>
A green-cheek conure may live as much as about 25 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (27 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "duck">>
A domestic muscovy duck lives as much as about 9 years, but the record was 27.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (29 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "dog">>
A dog usually lives up to about 13 years. The Guinness World Record lived to 29.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (30 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "horse">>
A horse usually lives about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 51.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "pony">>
A pony usually lives about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 56.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "donkey">>
A donkey usually lives about 30 to 50 years. The Guinness World Record was 54.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "cockatiel">>
A bird like $FRIEND_1 may live as much as about 30 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (35 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "Meyers parrot">>
A Meyer's parrot may live as much as about 35 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (38 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "cat">>
A cat usually lives up to about 16 years. The Guinness World Record lived to 38.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (49 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "goose">>
A domestic goose usually lives as much as about 15 years. The Guinness World Record was 49.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (51 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "horse">>
A horse usually lives about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 51.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (54 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "donkey">>
A donkey usually lives about 30 to 50 years. The Guinness World Record was 54.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (56 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "pony">>
A pony usually lives about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 56.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (60 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "hyacinth macaw">>
A bird like $FRIEND_1 usually lives up to about 60 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (70 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "green winged macaw">>
A green winged macaw may live as much as about 70 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (80 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "African grey">>
A bird like $FRIEND_1 usually lives up to about 80 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (90 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "kakapo">>
A kakapo may live as much as about 90 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (70 + $FRIEND_1_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "white-crested macaw">>
The oldest recorded white-crested macaw lived to be 112 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>><!--
This passage is not executed in gameplay. I have it here for my own reference for all the species that the user's friend might be. Does not include unspecified or human.
-->
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "dog">>
Dog - usually lives up to about 13 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 29
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "cat">>
Cat - usually lives up to about 16 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 38
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "goat">>
Goat - usually lives about 18 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 22.
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "pig">>
Pig - usually about 15 to 20 years. Guinness World Record was 23.
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "horse">>
Horse - usually about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 51.
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "pony">>
Pony - usually about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 56.
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "donkey">>
Donkey - usually about 30 to 50 years. The Guinness World Record was 54.
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "society finch">>
Society finch - lives about 4 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "duck">>
Domestic muscovy duck - lives as much as about 9 years, but the record was 27
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "turkey">>
Domestic turkey - lives about 10 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "barbary dove">>
Barbary dove - lives about 12 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "canary">>
Domestic canary - lives as much as about 14 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "guineafowl">>
Domestic guineafowl - lives about 15 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "rock pigeon">>
Domestic rock pigeon - lives as much as about 15 years, but the Guinness World Record is 25
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "goose">>
Domestic goose - usually lives about 15 years, but the Guinness World Record was 49
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "chicken">>
Chicken - the Guinness World Record for the oldest chicken was 16. The author of this wizard has heard unverified anecdotes about ones 30 years old. Usually chickens lack the opportunity and the documentation to prove the full potential of their lifespan. Maybe yours could beat the record!
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "lorikeet">>
Lorikeet, or parrotlet - may live as much as about 20 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "conure">>
Green-cheek conure - may live as much as about 25 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "cockatiel">>
Caique, cockatiel, eclectus parrot, lovebird, monk parrot, Senegal parrot, or sun conure - may live as much as about 30 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "Meyers parrot">>
Meyer's parrot - may live as much as about 35 years old
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "hyacinth macaw">>
Blue-and-yellow macaw, cockatoo, or hyacinth macaw - may live as much as about 60 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "green winged macaw">>
Green winged macaw - may live as much as about 70 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "African grey">>
African grey, or Major Mitchell's cockatoo - may live as much as about 80 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "kakapo">>
Kakapo - may live as much as about 90 years
<<elseif $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is "white-crested macaw">>
White-crested macaw - the oldest recorded one lived to 112
<</if>><!--
This displays within the Friend1AgeEachYear passage, if the friend was born in the past, and then if the friend's species is not human.
-->
<<if $timeline_heading eq (4 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "society finch">>
A society finch usually lives about 4 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (5 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "donkey">>
A donkey reaches full adulthood between the ages of 3 and 5 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "African grey">>
An African grey reaches sexual maturity between the ages of 3 and 5 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (7 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "horse">>
A horse reaches full adulthood between the ages of 5 and 7 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (9 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "duck">>
A domestic muscovy duck lives as much as about 9 years, but the record was 27.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (10 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "turkey">>
A domestic turkey lives about 10 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (12 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "barbary dove">>
A barbary dove lives about 12 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (13 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "dog">>
A dog usually lives up to about 13 years. The Guinness World Record lived to 29. I'm going to keep showing you how much older your dog might live to be, if you would be so fortunate as to reach that record, too.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (14 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "canary">>
A domestic canary lives as much as about 14 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (15 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "guineafowl">>
A domestic guineafowl lives as much as about 15 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "rock pigeon">>
A domestic rock pigeon usually lives as much as about 15 years. The Guinness World Record is 25.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "goose">>
A domestic goose usually lives as much as about 15 years. The Guinness World Record was 49.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (16 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "cat">>
A cat usually lives up to about 16 years. The Guinness World Record lived to 38. I'm going to keep showing you how much older your cat might live to be, if you would be so fortunate as to reach that record, too.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "chicken">>
The Guinness World Record for the oldest chicken was 16. The author of this wizard has heard unverified anecdotes about ones 30 years old. Usually chickens lack the opportunity and the documentation to prove the full potential of their lifespan. Maybe $FRIEND_2 could beat that record!
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (18 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "goat">>
A goat usually lives about 18 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 22. I'm going to keep showing you how much older your goat might live to be, if you would be so fortunate as to reach that record, too.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (20 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "lorikeet">>
A bird like $FRIEND_2 usually lives as much as about 20 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (22 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "goat">>
A goat usually lives about 18 years, but the Guinness World Record lived to 22.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (25 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "rock pigeon">>
A domestic rock pigeon usually lives as much as about 15 years. The Guinness World Record is 25.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "conure">>
A green-cheek conure may live as much as about 25 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (27 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "duck">>
A domestic muscovy duck lives as much as about 9 years, but the record was 27.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (29 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "dog">>
A dog usually lives up to about 13 years. The Guinness World Record lived to 29.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (30 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "horse">>
A horse usually lives about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 51.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "pony">>
A pony usually lives about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 56.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "donkey">>
A donkey usually lives about 30 to 50 years. The Guinness World Record was 54.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "cockatiel">>
A bird like $FRIEND_2 may live as much as about 30 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (35 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "Meyers parrot">>
A Meyer's parrot may live as much as about 35 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (38 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "cat">>
A cat usually lives up to about 16 years. The Guinness World Record lived to 38.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (49 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "goose">>
A domestic goose usually lives as much as about 15 years. The Guinness World Record was 49.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (51 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "horse">>
A horse usually lives about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 51.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (54 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "donkey">>
A donkey usually lives about 30 to 50 years. The Guinness World Record was 54.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (56 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "pony">>
A pony usually lives about 25 to 30 years. The Guinness World Record was 56.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (60 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "hyacinth macaw">>
A bird like $FRIEND_2 usually lives up to about 60 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (70 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "green winged macaw">>
A green winged macaw may live as much as about 70 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (80 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "African grey">>
A bird like $FRIEND_2 usually lives up to about 80 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (90 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "kakapo">>
A kakapo may live as much as about 90 years.
<br>
<</if>>
<<elseif $timeline_heading eq (70 + $FRIEND_2_BDATE)>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is "white-crested macaw">>
The oldest recorded white-crested macaw lived to be 112 years old.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>><!-- In an earlier version, this passage was only for parts of the timeline that were in the past, so it was meant to be all be in past tense. However, now I'm switching everything to present tense. This passage should no longer be used. I'm keeping this passage for now, only for the reason to keep from breaking anything that might link to it.
-->
<<if ($user_birth_year + 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
User's birth year, plus 1 year, exactly matches the year.
User was born exactly one year in the past.
For example, user was born in 2025, and this is one year later, 2026.
-->
* This is when you turn 1 year old.
<br>
<<elseif ($user_birth_year + 2) gte $timeline_heading>>
<!--
User was born 20 or less years ago.
This is for the user aging yearly, but with LESS flavor text. The user is under age 21, so we want to avoid glitched-out remarks, such as telling a 3-year-old not to drink and drive!
It's important to evaluate whether the user was born in the future before we evaluate this if-statement, or else this if-statement will manage to apply to future birthdates, resulting in glitchy phrasings.
-->
*
<<print either (
"This is when you",
"You",
"In that year, you")>>
<<print either (
"turn",
"become",
"are",
"reach")>>
<<print $timeline_heading - $user_birth_year>><<print either (
" years old",
" years of age",
" in age",
" of age",
"")>><<print either
(".", ".", ".", "<nowiki>!</nowiki>", "...")>>
<br>
<<include AgingEvents>>
<<if $USA is true>><<include RetirementAge>><</if>>
<</if>><!-- This passage is only about $FRIEND_1 either aging yearly, or approaching their birth. Don't rearrange any sections! This passage is included in the Output passage, and it completely works!
-->
<<if $FRIEND_1_BDATE eq $timeline_heading>>
<!-- Friend's birth year exactly matches the year -->
* $FRIEND_1 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE - 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, minus one, matches the year.
Friend will be born exactly one year in the future.
For example, if friend is born in 2025, and the year is 1 year earlier, 2024.
-->
* One year before $FRIEND_1 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, plus 1 year, exactly matches the year.
Friend was born exactly one year in the past.
For example, friend was born in 2025, and this is one year later, 2026.
-->
* $FRIEND_1 turns one year old.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE - 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, minus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
Friend has 2 years until they will be born.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 - 2 = 2023 eq 2027? False, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 - 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the friend was born 2 years ago, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "friend was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* Two years before $FRIEND_1 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, plus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
Friend was born exactly 2 years ago.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 + 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 + 2 = 2031 eq 2027? False, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the friend will be born 2 years in the future, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "friend was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* $FRIEND_1 turns two years old.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_1_BDATE + 2) gt $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend was born at least or exactly two years in the future.
Friend's birth year, plus 2 years, is greater than (BUT NOT EQUAL TO, which would introduce a glitch) the timeline heading.
-->
*
<<print $FRIEND_1_BDATE - $timeline_heading>>
years until $FRIEND_1 is born.
<br>
<<else>>
<!--
Friend was born any other number of years in the past.
This is for the friend aging yearly, but with LESS flavor text. We want to avoid glitched-out remarks, such as telling a 3-year-old or a cat not to drink and drive!
It's important to evaluate whether the friend was born in the future before we evaluate this if-statement, or else this if-statement will manage to apply to future birthdates, resulting in glitchy phrasings.
-->
*
$FRIEND_1
<<print either (
"turns",
"becomes",
"is",
"reaches")>>
<<print $timeline_heading - $FRIEND_1_BDATE>><<print either (
" years old",
" years of age",
" in age",
" of age",
"")>><<print either
(".", ".", ".", "<nowiki>!</nowiki>", "...")>>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is not "human">>
<<if $FRIEND_1_SPECIES is not "unspecified">>
<<include [[Friend1AnimalAgingEvents]]>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<br>
<</if>><!-- This passage is only about $FRIEND_2 either aging yearly, or approaching their birth. Don't rearrange any sections! This passage is included in the Output passage, and it completely works!
-->
<<if $FRIEND_2_BDATE eq $timeline_heading>>
<!-- Friend's birth year exactly matches the year -->
* $FRIEND_2 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE - 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, minus one, matches the year.
Friend will be born exactly one year in the future.
For example, if friend is born in 2025, and the year is 1 year earlier, 2024.
-->
* One year before $FRIEND_2 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 1) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, plus 1 year, exactly matches the year.
Friend was born exactly one year in the past.
For example, friend was born in 2025, and this is one year later, 2026.
-->
* $FRIEND_2 turns one year old.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE - 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, minus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
Friend has 2 years until they will be born.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 - 2 = 2023 eq 2027? False, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 - 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the friend was born 2 years ago, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "friend was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* Two years before $FRIEND_2 is born.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2) eq $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend's birth year, plus 2 years, exactly matches the year.
Friend was born exactly 2 years ago.
Suppose it's 2027, and they were born 2 years ago, in 2025:
Is 2025 + 2 = 2027 eq 2027? True, good.
Suppose it's 2027, and they will be born 2 years from now, in 2029:
Is 2029 + 2 = 2031 eq 2027? False, good.
This is a separate if-statement from the rest in order to differentiate it from the if-statement for evaluating if the friend will be born 2 years in the future, which oddly can BOTH be triggered by ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2) gte $timeline_heading, which had appeared in an earlier version of the "friend was born at least two years in the future" if-statement later in this passage.
-->
* $FRIEND_2 turns two years old.
<br>
<<elseif ($FRIEND_2_BDATE + 2) gt $timeline_heading>>
<!--
Friend was born at least or exactly two years in the future.
Friend's birth year, plus 2 years, is greater than (BUT NOT EQUAL TO, which would introduce a glitch) the timeline heading.
-->
*
<<print $FRIEND_2_BDATE - $timeline_heading>>
years until $FRIEND_2 is born.
<br>
<<else>>
<!--
Friend was born any other number of years in the past.
This is for the friend aging yearly, but with LESS flavor text. We want to avoid glitched-out remarks, such as telling a 3-year-old or a cat not to drink and drive!
It's important to evaluate whether the friend was born in the future before we evaluate this if-statement, or else this if-statement will manage to apply to future birthdates, resulting in glitchy phrasings.
-->
*
$FRIEND_2
<<print either (
"turns",
"becomes",
"is",
"reaches")>>
<<print $timeline_heading - $FRIEND_2_BDATE>><<print either (
" years old",
" years of age",
" in age",
" of age",
"")>><<print either
(".", ".", ".", "<nowiki>!</nowiki>", "...")>>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is not "human">>
<<if $FRIEND_2_SPECIES is not "unspecified">>
<<include [[Friend2AnimalAgingEvents]]>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<br>
<</if>>Generation Z includes people born between 1993 and 2020. They overlap with Generation Y, who are born between about 1980 and 2004. Gen Y and Z are considered "digital natives," having grown up with computers and video games.Members of Generation Y are born between about 1980 to 2004. They are also called Millennials, because many of them come of age around the turn of the millennium (year 2000). Gen Y overlaps with Generation X (1960-1985) and Generation Z (1993-2020).Generation X is born between about 1960 through 1985. They overlap with Generation Y (1980-2004) and the Baby Boom generation (1943-1966).The Baby Boom generation is born between 1943 and 1966. They overlap with Generation X, who are born as early as about 1960.The Silent Generation is born between about 1925 through 1946.The Greatest Generation is born between about 1901 through 1928.<!-- This passage is only for historical events that happened in the past at a fixed year. I can't name this passage History, because History is the name of a passage for if the user is *interested* in the subject of history. -->
<!-- Template
<<set $fixed_event_year to 0000>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
*
<br>
<</if>>
-->
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1901>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Victorian era ends, giving way to the Edwardian era.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1903>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* First controlled heavier-than-air flight of the Wright Brothers.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1908>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Ford Motor Company invents the Model T, the first affordable automobile.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1910>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Halley's comet returns.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1912>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The sinking of the RMS Titanic.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1914>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* World War I begins.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1918>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The 1918 flu pandemic.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1927>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first moving picture with sound is made, called the Jazz Singer.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1928>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1929>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Great Depression begins with the Wall Street Crash
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1939>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* World War II begins.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1944>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first programmable electronic computer, Colossus.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1945>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* World War II ends.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1948>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Soviet Sever-2 expedition become the first party to indisputably set foot on the North Pole.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1952>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first scheduled flight by commercial jet.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1953>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first color television is produced.
<br>
* Elvis Presley's music career begins.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1954>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first electricity generated by nuclear power.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1957>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Launch of Sputnik 1 and the beginning of the Space Age.
<br>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The 1957–1958 Asian flu pandemic was a global pandemic of influenza A virus subtype H2N2 that originated in China. It caused between about 1–4 million deaths worldwide.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1958>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Invention of the optical disc and the cassette tape.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1959>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* First images of the far side of the Moon.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1960>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_SEX_ED is false>>
* The birth control pill becomes commercially available.
<br>
<</if>>
* Seventeen nations in Africa achieve independence, called the Year of Africa.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1961>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first human spaceflight.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1962>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Beatles release their first record.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1963>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1968>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy during the Poor People's Campaign.
<</if>>
<br>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The 1968 flu pandemic kills about 1–4 million people around the world.
<br>
<</if>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* The Troubles begin in Northern Ireland. During them, the violence sometimes spreads internationally, even into mainland Europe.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1969>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first manned mission to the Moon.
<br>
* Creation of ARPANET, the earliest incarnation of the Internet.
<br>
* The LGBTQ rights movement begins with the Stonewall riots.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1971>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The invention of the microchip.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1973>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The launch of the first space station, Skylab.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1974>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The discovery of the Australopithecus afarensis (nicknamed "Lucy") in the African country of Tanzania.
<br>
* The world population reaches 4 billion.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1976>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The first outbreak of the Ebola virus.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1977>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Introduction of the first mass-produced personal computers.
<br>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The WHO eradicates the last naturally occurring case of smallpox, a contagious disease that has killed many people throughout written history.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1980>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The WHO certifies that smallpox is extinct in the wild worldwide.
<br>
<</if>>
* Mount Saint Helens erupts, spreading a cloud of ash across a large part of the US and Canada. Traces of its ash are found worldwide.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1981>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The AIDS epidemic officially begins when the CDC reports cases of it in the US. AIDS had already been killing many people in North America throughout the 1970s, but doctors took years to begin to recognize it. The earliest known cases of AIDS date as far back as 1959, which was later discovered by examining tissue samples.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1982>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first commercially sold compact disc player.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1983>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Global Positioning System (GPS) technology becomes declassified.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1984>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* The human immunodeficiency virus is recognized as the cause of HIV/AIDS. Before then, there were many different theories about what the disease was, what caused it, and who could catch it.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1985>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first use of DNA evidence to solve a crime.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1986>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The return of Halley's Comet, whose orbit brings it within sight of the Earth every 75 to 76 years.
<br>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* The Chernobyl disaster.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1987>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The world population reaches 5 billion.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1989>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* The Exxon Valdez oil spill.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1990>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The invention of the World Wide Web.
<br>
* The Hubble Space Telescope launches.
<br>
* The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its first assessment report, showing that human activities are raising carbon dioxide and causing global warming.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1991>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Gulf War ends.
<br>
* The Soviet Union dissolves into fifteen independent republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
<br>
* The first website is put online and made available to the public. This follows the invention of the World Wide Web in the previous year.
<br>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts. It is the second largest eruption in the world during this century. The toxic minerals it spews into the air form a haze all over the planet, and have effects on the climate.
<br>
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1994>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Channel Tunnel opens.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1996>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Dolly the sheep becomes the first successful cloned animal.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1998>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* Hurricane Mitch, the second-deadliest hurricane on record (as of this writing in 2020), kills nearly 20,000 people in central America.
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<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 1999>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Euro is introduced to the financial market. Coins and banknotes enter circulation in participating countries in 2002.
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* The world population reaches 6 billion.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2000>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The International Space Station begins operations.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2001>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* 9/11.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2002>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Euro enters circulation in the form of coins and banknotes.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2003>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* Space Shuttle Columbia is destroyed on re-entry.
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<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2004>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The first surface images of Saturn's moon, Titan. Titan is thought to have conditions that could be hospitable to life.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2005>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* Hurricane Katrina kills over a thousand people and causes destruction in the US and Canada.
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<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2006>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The International Astronomical Union creates the first formal definition of a planet, and excludes Pluto from the list.
<br>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* Humans cause the functional extinction of the Yangtze river dolphins by destroying its habitat. The World Wildlife Fund calls for the preservation of any of the dolphin's habitats, in case a few of them may have survived without any human's knowledge. This is the first documented extinction of a large animal in 50 years. The previous ones were when humans hunted the Japanese sea lion and the Caribbean monk seal to extinction.
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<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2007>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The introduction of the iPhone, which changes how people design and use all other kinds of mobile phones.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2008>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Great Recession begins.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2009>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The 2009 swine flu pandemic affects as much as 21 percent of the world population.
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<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2010>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills hundreds of thousands, damages vital infrastructure needed to respond to the emergency, and affects about three million people. Countries around the world offer humanitarian aid.
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<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2011>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* Oppressive regimes cause revolutions called the Arab Spring in the countries of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain.
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* The Occupy movement inspires worldwide protests against economic inequality.
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* The world population reaches 7 billion.
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<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2012>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* The Curiosity rover arrives on Mars.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2014>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_TRAGEDIES is false>>
* The worst Ebola epidemic in recorded history infects nearly 30,000 people and kills more than 11,000, chiefly in the African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
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<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2015>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
* In the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, 195 nations agree to lower carbon emissions.
<br>
* The first close-up images of the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto.
<br>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2018>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EXTINCT is false>>
* The northern white rhinoceros becomes functionally extinct. The last two known individuals are still alive, but they are both females.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2019>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The COVID-19 pandemic begins.
<br>
<</if>>
<</if>>
<<set $fixed_event_year to 2020>>
<<if $timeline_heading eq $fixed_event_year>>
<<if $CW_EPIDEMIC is false>>
* The COVID-19 pandemic infects at least 83.3 million, and kills 1.81 million. It causes the largest global recession in a century. Every country takes part in measures to slow its spread. This alters the everyday behavior of most individuals and organizations.
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<</if>>
<</if>>