Technology and Culture
| Years from now | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| 8000 | Potential Year 10,000 problem, as many current software programs cannot accept a 5-digit year. | |
| 10,000 | Estimated lifespan of the Long Now Foundation's several ongoing projects, including a 10,000-year clock known as the Clock of the Long Now, the Rosetta Project, and the Long Bet Project. | |
| 10,000 | The end of humanity, according to Brandon Carter's Doomsday argument, which assumes that half of the humans who will ever have lived have already been born. | |
| 100,000 – 1 million | According to Michio Kaku, time by which humanity will be a Type III civilization, capable of harnessing all the energy of the galaxy. | |
| 5–50 million | Time by which the entire galaxy could be colonised, even at sublight speeds. | |
| 7011292277024584000292,277,024,584 | At 15:30:08 UTC on 4 December 292,277,026,596 AD, the Unix time stamp will exceed the largest value that can be held in a signed 64-bit integer. |
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