- published: 10 Apr 2016
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The 26th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span from January 1, 2501 to December 31, 2600 of the Gregorian calendar.
Physicist Stephen Hawking, at a White House lecture in 1999, remarked that if there is no space colonization, population expansion continued unabated and the people of the Earth continued to use power at the rate they did then, then by the year 2600 people would be standing shoulder to shoulder and the Earth would glow red hot.