Notable predictions and known events
2082
2084
2089
Fictional references
- Philip K. Dick's The Crack in Space is set on an overpopulated future Earth circa 2080.
- The events of the Sega Mega Drive strategy game The Hybrid Front start during this decade.
- 2081: The year in which Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut takes place.
- the XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association global season tournament is supposed to take place
- According to the storyline of the 1982 video arcade game Robotron: 2084, in 2084 man perfects the Robotrons, a robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation.
- In the X-COM Storyline, the Fourth Alien War (AW-IV) starts in 2084.
- Second American Civil War (2083 to 2086) in Judge Dredd
- The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and Thunderbirds 2086 are both set in this year, 100 years after their 1986 premieres.
- Claire Fisher, fictional artist in the HBO television series, Six Feet Under, dies in 2085 in Manhattan. She is 101 years old.
- The events described by a fictional version of Evel Knievel in the Midnight Brown song 2084. Including things like the TV series "Dog Monkey vs. Monkey Dog" and streets made of syrup.
- The Sci-Fi film Total Recall is set in 2084.
- A TV series called The Secret Show takes place in 2082.
- The Doctor Who story Warriors of the Deep takes place in 2084.
- The movie The Adventures of Pluto Nash takes place in 2087.
- A war in Ayreon's universe is set in 2084, essentially wiping out all mankind and creating a new soul, the new Universal Migrator.
- The first year of the Universal Century, the time line in which the 1979 anime series Mobile Suit Gundam and many of its sequels takes place, coincides with 2081.
- Surviving Antarctica takes place in 2083.
- 2080 is referenced in a song with the same name by the band Yeasayer. The song calls attention to different possibilities for the future.
- Ōban Star-Racers takes place in 2082.
- There will be a gay candidate for US president in 2084, according to The Simpsons.
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