The year 2024 is a leap year, so there will be 29 days in February. The calendar can’t be used again until the year 2052.
2024 is the 24th year of the third decade in the 21st century. It is the fifth year of the 2020s.
Who knows what surprises await us in 2024. But we do already know some things:
* In early April, Nintendo will shut down the Wii U and 3DS servers.
* April 8, 2024: A total solar eclipse will be visible in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The next total solar eclipse that can be seen from the contiguous United States will be on Aug. 23, 2044, according to NASA.
* July 26, to August 11, 2024: Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
* November 5, 2024: United States presidential election. The incumbent President Joe Biden is eligible for re-election.
* December 2024: Notre-Dame de Paris is scheduled to reopen after sustaining severe damage in a fire five years ago.
* January 1:, 2024: all books published in 1928 will enter the public domain, including the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Futurist site Quantumrun also predicts:
* More than 50 percent of internet traffic to homes will be from appliances.
* Artificial muscles used in robots will lift more weight and generate more mechanical power than human muscles.
* New prosthetic models will convey sensations of feeling.
* First manned mission to Mars.
* Global reserves of indium are fully mined and depleted. Indium is a metal widely used in 5G and OLED technologies.
* World population forecasted to reach 8,067,008,000.
* World sales of electric vehicles reaches 9,206,667.
* Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 84 exabytes.
