In the year 2090, the world is a different place. Rapid technologization, evolving geopolitical and political landscapes, extreme weather attributed to climate change, and other events have made the world unrecognizable to people born in the 20th or early 21st centuries. This is a list of major events from 2000-2089 that have helped create the world as it is ten years before the turn of the century, organized by three different categories.