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'''2026''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMXXVI]]''') will be a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]].

== Predicted and scheduled events ==
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=== November ===
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Heinz von Foerster]]'s predicted [[technological singularity|technological (or rather demographic) singularity]] occurs.

=== Date unknown ===
* Automatic mission to [[Mars]] as proposed in the [[Aurora Programme]]
* Having begun in 1882, construction of the [[Sagrada Família]] in Barcelona is scheduled to finish.<ref>http://barcelona.vivelaciudad.es/2007/03/23-la-sagrada-familia</ref>
* Onboard plutonium generators delivering heat and electricity to [[Mars Science Laboratory]] will run out.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19107577</ref>

== In fiction ==
=== Computer and video games ===
* ''[[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'' (2007)

=== Movies ===
* ''[[Metropolis (movie)|Metropolis]]'' ([[1927]])

=== Literature ===
* "[[There Will Come Soft Rains (short story)|There Will Come Soft Rains]]", a short story by [[Ray Bradbury]], is set on [[August 4]].
* "[[Red Mars]]", the story begins on this date.

=== Television ===
* ''[[seaQuest DSV]]'': An economic summit takes place that places hundreds of thousands of undeveloped basins back on the market.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' episode "[[In a Mirror, Darkly (Enterprise episode)|In a Mirror, Darkly]]" (2005): [[World War III]] begins, continuing through [[2053]].
* ''[[Fringe (TV series)|Fringe]]'' episode "The Day We Died" (2011): Peter travels to this year when entering a machine. This is the year of Olivia Dunham's death.

== References ==
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[[Category:2020s]]
[[Category:Years in the future]]