2021

2021 (MMXXI) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

February

*February 9 - Terrorist José Padilla scheduled release from ADX Florence [ [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=20796-424&x=56&y=14 BOP.gov: Jose Padilla] viewed 2008-08-10]

May

*May 11 - Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada. [ [http://www.elections.bc.ca/elections/elections-results.htm Elections BC] ]

Unknown dates

*NASA will have colonized the moon with scientists for more Mars research.Fact|date=April 2008
*Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
*CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
*Costa Rica will become a carbon-neutral nation. The target date has been set by President Oscar Arias. ["National Geographic", February 2008]
*CityRail will commence phasing out its 1970-1977 V-Sets for newer, more modern cars. The new trains are currently unknown.
*A president of the United States will be inaugurated on January 20.
*Intel scientists predict that the shrinking of microchips roughly every 18 months (Moore's Law) will reach a fundemental limit by 2021. The Semiconductor industry won't be able to shrink transistors much, if at all, beyond the 16 nanometer technology process. cite web|title=Moore|url=http://news.cnet.com/Intel-scientists-find-wall-for-Moores-Law/2100-1008_3-5112061.html]

2021 in fiction

Computer and video games

* "Shadowrun": On April 30, ten percent of the world's population suddenly transform into new racial types, resulting in the ork and troll races.
* "": The chronological setting of New Blood.

Film

* "Click" (2006): Michael Newman's father dies.
* Set in 2021: "Moon Zero Two" (1969)
* Set in 2021: "Johnny Mnemonic" (1995)

Literature

* In the Terminator novel , Skynet initiates Judgement Day.
* "Weapons of Choice" by John Birmingham (2004): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2 1942.
* Set in 2021:
** "The Children of Men" by P.D. James (1992)
** "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick (earlier editions set in 1999) (1968)

Television

* set in 2021: "Cowboy Bebop" (1999-2000) "The Gate Accident" took place
* Set in 2021: "Sealab 2021" (2000–2005)
* set in 2021: "Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (2008-Present)

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