2022 Year in Review (not listed in any priority; non-scientific, subjective review by Jerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org and jglenn@igc.org)

1. First genetically modified pig’s heart transplanted into a living human lived 2 months.
2. Russia invades Ukraine.
3. Finland and Sweden ask to join NATO.
4. China’s Zhurong rover landed on Mars.
5. New Covid mutations continue around the world, but overall Covid pandemic degreases, accept massive outbreak in China.
6. Worldwide inflation driven by supply chains disrupted by Covid and Russian invasion of Ukraine, plus massive US and other national financial covid relief infusions of money.
7. NASA’s James Webb telescope shows closest origins of the universe.
8. ISO issues organization AI governance ISO/IEC 38507.
9. US House Hearings proved Trump lead attempted coup refusing peaceful transition.
10. Non-Cow animal protein milk using 99%less water, 97% fewer GHG, 60% less energy.
11. Cell-based Chicken on sale in Singapore and US FDA approves Upside for sales in US.
12. Robot taxies now in operation in Las Vegas by Uber and San Francisco by Waymo, also in Wuhan and Chongqing, China by Baidu.
13. Finland’s World Summit on Parliamentary Committees on the Future initiates world movement for all parliaments to have their own Committees on the Future.
14. UN aggress to UN Summit on the Future in 2024.
15. Green House Gases reach the highest level since the industrial revolution.
16. One third of Pakistan underwater costing $30 billion due to global climate change.
17. Natural disasters (storms, floods, fires) cost $260 billion.
18. UN Climate Conference in Egypt (COP27) payment for global warming damages.
19. NASA proves asteroid’s trajectory can be altered to save the earth from future collision.
20. Computer-connected lab-grown human brain cells learned how to play pong without being connected to a body.
21. Human genome sequenced in just 5 hours and 2 minutes.
22. US Dept. of Energy’s Frontier computer at Oak Ridge sets world record as fastest computer at 1.1 exaflops/second.
23. First photograph of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
24. As of mid-2022 there were 103 million refugees or displaced persons (mostly from Syria, Venezuela and Ukraine).
25. UN Biodiversity COP 15 agreed to protect 30% of the Earth’s land and water by 2030.
26. COVAX delivered over 1 billion doses to poorer nations, half given by Pfizer.
27. Queen Elizabeth dies after 70 years rein over the United Kingdom.
28. ChatGPT interactive AI wakes up the world to future possibilities of advanced AI.
29. US National Lab demonstrates fusion can make more energy than it consumes.
30. Massive protests In Iran against the dress code evolved into larger protests against the government in general.
31. North Korea launches nearly 100 missile tests against UN Security Council’s resolutions.
32. Argentina wins the World Cup.