2015

* Jane Goodall fears that by 2015, Bonobos, Chimpanzees and Gorillas will be all but gone from the wild, surviving only in zoos and in well-protected reserves.
* DARPA wishes to have one third of all military ground vehicles automated by 2015.
* The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.

Fictional events

*In the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel 30 years into the future from 1985 to October 21, 2015.
**According to this film, in 2015 anti-gravity devices will be very common, being used even in family cars and skateboards, as well as windows that project a false landscape and shoes that tighten themselves.
**In the film, Marty reads in a newspaper that Queen Diana is visiting Washington, D.C.. In reality, Princess Diana will have been dead for 18 years in 2015.
**The film depicts the World Trade Center towers standing in 2015; a shot of them is seen on the Hill Valley cable TV station "The Scenery Channel". In reality, by 2015 the towers will have been destroyed for 14 years.
**The film shows that the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series in this year against a currently-nonexistent Miami-based team, presumedly the "Gators" or "Alligators" based on the team's logo.
**According to a future edition of USA Today seen in the film, the President of the United States will be a female.
*The events of the Anime TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion begin in this year.
*The events of the Anime TV series Future GPX Cyber Formula began in this year. Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
*The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Past Tense" establishes that by 2015, London (UK) has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
*In the Doom universe, the Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
*In the .hack universe, a fire occurred at the main CC Corp, the building resulted in the loss of a lot of data, and The World was forced to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp was able to rebuild the game system. Thus creating The World:R2.
*Aero-Tech, the aerospace and defense supplier of Space: Above and Beyond is founded.
*In the Star Control universe, the Small War of 2015 takes place this year, however never seen in the game, only referred to. A war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. Called the small war because it could have been much worse.
*It has been confirmed by Hideo Kojima that the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will be set sometime in 2015, six years following the events of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, to which the game serves as a chronological sequel.