Timeline (The Next Frontiers)

2020

 * November 8: Joe Biden wins the 2020 United States presidential election, becoming the 46th President of the country. Kamala Harris becomes the 49th American Vice President.

2021

 * The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's first light.
 * January 20: Biden's mandate as President of the United States begins.
 * February: The first effective vaccines against COVID-19 are developed.

2022

 * The Indian state of Sikkim starts testing UBI, providing every one of its citizens a basic salary.
 * October: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope commences full operations for a ten-year survey. It is capable of surveying the entire sky available to it every few nights, and making all of the data publicly available immediately after it is taken. That way, the information is not restricted only to collaborators. It is the opening of huge gateways for different groups to communicate with each other, boosting science. Not long after that, quite a few discoveries start to be made by amateur astronomers.

2023

 * New York suffers from outdated infrastructure. The government attempts to fix this, but progress is slow.

2024

 * November 8: Andrew Yang wins the 2024 United States presidential election, becoming the 48th American President.

2025

 * January 20: Yang's mandate as President of the United States begins.

2035

 * As automation and AI take a more significant part of unskilled work, and even skilled work, it starts to become a tabu, and general discontent of the population regarding it grows. Countless nations start to regulate the use of automated systems and AI research.

2037

 * Although there are already regulations addressing those matters, most economies fail to conform to technological progress, creating a new set of financial crisis.

2048

 * Thanks to automated recycling facilities, the rate of depletion of several natural resources is significantly reduced. Effective methods of spreading awareness about ecological issues, the widespread adoption of renewable sources of energy, and the efforts of people like Elon Musk, for example, also help.