2018 (MMXVIII) will be a common year starting on a Monday in the Gregorian calendar. It is the 2018th year of Common Era (also called Anno Domini), the 18th of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century and the 9th of the 2010s.

Predicted and scheduled events

February

• February 9 - February 25 – 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

June

• June 8 - July 8 – 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia.

July

• July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.

Date unknown

• The US missile defense complex in Poland will be operational.^[1]
• The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is likely to be launched no earlier than 2018. It is intended as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which was launched in 1990.
• The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.
• Researchers and investors in space elevator technology hope to start funding the construction of the first elevator by 2031.^[2]
• Aurora Programme Aerocapture and soft landing technology demonstrator for Mars.
• The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.
• According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, by 2018 there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight. ^[3]
• Expected completion of the Copenhagen City Circle Line
• The Giant Magellan Telescope will be completed.
• The Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii will be completed.^[4]
• Launch of the Mars sample return mission.
• The Economy of China is expected to become the largest in the world.^[5]
• NASA's Solar Probe Plus will orbit the Sun.
• Estimated completion date for the Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia which is expected to become the tallest building in the world and the first to reach 1 kilometer in height.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Krazy Ivan^[6] (1996)
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife (2005)
• Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (starts in 2018 and ends in early 2019) (2007)

Film

• Rollerball (1975)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)
• I Spit on Your Rave (2010)
• Iron Sky (2012)
• The Island (2005)

Literature

• Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross.

Television series

• The storyline for the science fiction television series seaQuest DSV begins in 2018.
• The second season of Code Geass takes place in 2018.

References

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