2024 Year in Review

The 2024 Year in Review is not listed in any priority. It is a non-scientific, subjective review by Jerome C. Glenn. The Year in review has been published by The Millennium Project since 2010.

1. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny “dies” in prison.
2. Global temperature continues to pass 1.5^oC threshold above pre-industrial levels.
3. Donald Trump fined $175 million for years of business fraud in New York and found guilty of election issue coverup.
4. Boeing maroons two astronauts on the International Space Station
5. Claudia Sheinbaum elected as the first female and Jewish president of Mexico.
6. El Capitan, in the U.S. becomes fastest computer in the world (1.742exa FLOPs)
7. US Supreme Court grants Presidential significant immunity.
8. Donald Trump elected Present of the United States
9. Both US and China initiated separate UN resolutions on AI; both were adopted by UN General Assembly and both supported by each other.
10. Massive protests against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.
11. International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for PM Netanyahu of Israel
12. AI breakthroughs continue to accelerate and integrate with robots.
13. China and the EU create first legal framework for artificial intelligence.
14. The International Space Station moved twice to avoid orbital debris
15. China claims Tongtong is the first AGI robot with curiosity like a 3 or 4 year old.
16. Water molecules confirmed on two asteroids and a planet 280 light years away
17. UN Summit of the Future approves Pact for the Future
18. UN Climate COP 29 held in Baku.
19. China’s Chang-e 6 returned a sample from the far side of the moon.
20. First private sector soft landing on the moon by Intuitive Machines and Falcon 9.
21. Russian war on Ukraine continues makes little progress
22. Civil wars in Sudan and Myanmar continue
23. Liquid water discovered on Mars 7 miles below the surface.
24. Paris Summer Olympics reinforces the spirit of common humanity.
25. Bitcoin passes US$100,000
26. Nobel prize for physics and chemistry awarded to AI innovators
27. The UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power
28. First-ever “close-up” image of a star outside the Milky Way Galaxy
29. Global warming continues as 2024 is the hottest year on record
30. Council of Europe’s AI Convention binding treaty signed by 11 countries so far.
31. Neuralink brain implanted paraplegic person plays chess with his thoughts alone.
32. Taylor Swift’s world tour generated more than $10 billion on local economies.
33. Global warming cost the world US$310 billion in damages.
34. Assad flees to Moscow as 13-year civil war ends in Syria
35. Google’s Willow superconducting quantum computing chip improves accuracy, error reduction as the numbers of qubits increases

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