◄ 2020 2025
2025
2020s Era
Act I
The World Stage
2025
8.1B
people on Earth when this year began
Today
8.2B
+100M more people since
🇺🇸
US President
Donald Trump
🇬🇧
UK Prime Minister
Keir Starmer
🇺🇳
UN Secretary-General
António Guterres
Defining Moments
AI agents go mainstream
LA wildfires devastate communities
Global climate commitments tested
Quantum computing breakthroughs
Act II
Culture & Entertainment
#1 Song
APT.
Rosé & Bruno Mars
- ♪ Kendrick Lamar - GNX
- ♪ Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet
Top TV Shows
- 📺 Squid Game S2
- 📺 The Last of Us S2
- 📺 Severance S2
- 📺 Wednesday S2
Notable Books
- 📚 Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
- 📚 James - Percival Everett
Act III
Technology & Science
AI agents and copilots everywhere
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4o
Humanoid robots in warehouses
Apple Vision Pro
Space
Artemis program continues • SpaceX Starship orbital flights • ISRO missions
Nobel Peace Prize
Nihon Hidankyo (Japanese atomic bomb survivors)
Nobel Physics
John Hopfield & Geoffrey Hinton (neural networks)
Act IV
Cost of Living
Gas / Gallon
$3.50
Today: $3.50
Milk / Gallon
$4.15
Today: $4.15
Movie Ticket
$11.75
Today: $11.75
Average Home
$420,000
Today: $420,000
New Car
$49,500
Today: $49,500
Postage Stamp
$0.73
Today: $0.73
Average Salary
$63,795 / year (min wage: $7.25/hr)
Act V
Sports Champions
World Series
Los Angeles Dodgers
NBA Finals
TBD
Super Bowl
Philadelphia Eagles (SB LIX)
Act VI
Our Planet
CO₂ Levels
0
parts per million
Today: 422 ppm
Temperature Anomaly
+1.45°C
vs. pre-industrial average
Today: +1.45°C
Life Expectancy
78.5 years
Internet
5.5B+ users, AI chatbots have 500M+ users, TikTok 1.5B users