What Do We Call The Year 2020

Though weve seen plenty of impressive technological advances like artificial intelligence and phones that unlock by scanning our faces its not quite the world of flying cars and robot butlers people once imagined wed be living in by nowin fact decades ago predictions about the futuristic and revolutionary changes wed see.

Come fly away ottawa. And people hanging out in a space apartment sounds like every 12 year olds semi realistic fantasy or the entire premise of the jetsons. The 2020s pronounced twenty twenties shortened to the 20s 1 2 is the current decade in the gregorian calendar which began on 1 january 2020 and will end on 31 december 2029. What else did we think would be going down.

Scanning electron microscope image of sars cov 2 centre yellow the virus that causes covid 19 and became a pandemic in the year 2020. Similarly the upcoming decade is technically the 203rd decade but we call it the twenties according to this common definition decades generally encompass the time span from years ending with 0 to years ending with 9 such as 2020 2029. The year 2020 is a nice round number.

Its hard to imagine that were almost living in the year 2020. Some months of the year so far have brought upwards of five retrogrades taking place at once and if we want to look at current real world 2020 events its important to consider that both mars. Which got me thinking what are some actual predictions people made decades ago about the year 2020.