#1093: Forget

When will we forget?

Based on US Census Bureau national population projections.

Assuming we don’t remember cultural events from before age 5 or 6.

By this year: the majority of Americans will be too young to remember:

2012: The seventies

2013: The Carter presidency

2014: The Reagan shooting

2015: The Falkland Islands war

2016: Return of the Jedi release

2017: The first Apple Macintosh

2018: New Coke

2019: Challenger

2020: Chernobyl

2021: Black Monday

2022: The Reagan Presidency

2023: The Berlin Wall

2024: Hammertime

2025: The Soviet Union

2026: The LA Riots

2027: Lorena Bobbit

2028: The Forrest Gump release

2029: The Rwandan Genocide

2030: OJ Simpson’s trial

2031: Clinton’s reelection

2032: Princess Diana

2033: Clinton’s impeachment

2034: Columbine

2035: Forgot about Dre

2036: 9

2037: VH1’s I Love the 80s

2038: A time before Facebook.

2039: VH1’s I Love the 90s

2040: Hurricane Katrina

2041: The planet Pluto

2042: The first iPhone

2043: The Bush presidency

2044: Michael Jackson

2045: trying to say “Eyjafjallajökull”

2046: The Arab Spring

2047: Anything embarrassing you do today.