We’ve missed Second Impact. Which is probably good, because I don’t know how many whiny 14 year-old Japanese teenagers I could handle without having to start killing.
Speaking of which, HAL9000 became operational on Jan. 12, 1992. (I went to a screening of 2001 at the American Museum of Natural History on that date; the crowd cheered when HAL mentioned it. 
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Well, 1972 was the year that the A-Team was sent to a military prison for a crime they didn’t commit.
What?
Oh, and let’s not forget Buck Rogers:
Heinlein’s “If This Goes On…” (AKA Revolt in 2100) is based on a plotted-but-unwritten Future History story, “The Sound of His Wings,” in which a Religious Right figure is elected President with the aid of Christian-Right televangelists, and proceeds to gradually remove American civil rights and replace it with a theocracy. The story is dated in 2012, and is alluded to in several other stories.
It would be injecting political comment into Café Society to comment on the description of that event and its relationship to the real world. 
In the “Space Seed”, they said that from 1992 to 1996, there was a world war known as the Eugenics wars, where a bunch of Genetically engineered supermen tried to take over the world(but records were fragementary). They were defeated, and a group of about 90 were unaccounted for at the end, presumably taking the Unregistered SS Bontany Bay into Space.
A guy named Greg Cox wrote two Star Trek Novels about the Eugenics wars, trying to make them more plausible in today’s reality. His perception is that Khan and his fellow supermen were working covertly, and some of the “terrorist” actions during that time were really the Supermen trying to kill each other off without attracting the world’s attention(at which point the world would try to kill them off). At the end, they leave in a NASA prototype sleeper ship, which they rename the Botany Bay.
According to the old NES game Crystalis, civilization was destroyed on October 31st, 1997.
Excuse me, October first.
(Yes, I just popped the game back in to check. :o)
In 1999, a large alien spacecraft was supposed to have crashed on South Ataria Island, making mankind for the first time definitely aware that there is life on other worlds. Ten years later, they have rebuilt the spaceship, re-christening it the SDF-1 Macross. Just in time for the original owners to show up and try to take it back…
–Cho Jiku Yosai Macross (Super Dimension Fortress Macross), later re-edited into the first part of Robotech
It should be noted though that the date, 2001, for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, was chosen moreso as a symbolic figure for ‘a new era’ as opposed to an actual date by which the book’s/movie’s material would be factual.
On a complete tangent:
Holy crap that game rocked. Too bad they destoryed the music on the GBC version. I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
1997 seems to be a popular year for the end of the world.
When did Akira destory toyko the first time?
Written in 1981 (or at least published circa that year), Stephen King’s “The Jaunt” tells of a futuristic way of travel. It doesn’t specify the year, but, if memory serves, it would have passed by the year 2004, based on circumstantial information.
I have an anthology from the '70s (I think) called The Year 2000 about life in…well, you get it.
On the other hand, Heinlein had he '60s down as the Crazy Years. He got that right!
(Anyone notice that in 3001 Clarke moved all the 2001 dates back?)
This reminded me of the movie Office Space. In that, Peter’s (Ron Livingston) a software engineer helping to correct the coding for the Y2K bug.
I’m fairly sure the Peace Authority should have taken over by now. I think it was supposed to happen around the year 2000. I can’t seem to find an exact date at the moment though. (from Vernor Vinge’s “The Peace War”)
Nineteen Eighty-Four starts on April 4, 1984 at 1:00 PM.
I have a YA anthology for 2041. (Most of the stories were written for the anthology; a couple were previously published and heavily modified from their original publications. I actually managed to track down one of them when I found a place selling a bunch of old Asimov’s.) I guess we’ll see how close it is here in 37 years, when I’m 58/59.
Not 1:00! 13:00! You’ll be getting a visit from the Thought Police, you counterrevolutionary Goldsteinite atavist!
I think Akira started WWIII in early 1988. (The movie was released in 1987.)
According to my Star Trek Chronology…
•1973—Five brutal knife murders in Kiev.
•1992—Chicago Mobs of the Twenties was published
•1994—Dead people are semi-routinely placed on Cryogenic satellites.
•1999—Voyager VI launched.
•2002—Nomad probe launched.