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The end of 2010's decade is near so what do you think people will remember this decade for?

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by Deleted Account, Sep 7, 2019.

    • Movies remakes/reboots and video game remasters
    • Video games have become services
    • Lots of shootings in the USA
    • The rise of bogus officiating in professional sports (NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL)
    • College football becomes more popular than the National Football League
    • Social media
    • Politics
    • Donald Trump
    • Music CD sales deceased
    • Twitch becomes popular
    • Netflix and HBO Go
    • The golden age of television (The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Hannibal, and iZombie)
    • The popularity of porn broadcasting/steaming
    • Online shopping
    • The Great Recession
     
  1. drac16

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    Same-sex marriage.
     
  2. Infrasapiens

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    The damned decade I lost my telephone cables.
     
  3. I agree with all of the above. Also maybe feminism? Pride parades, women's marches, the #metoo movement, etc.
     
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  4. WalkingForward

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  5. Great idea for a thread!

    Population & Culture
    • total count of people, urban pop., people born per decade all higher than ever before in history
    • social media, gaming, memes become the main pastimes for kids
    • superhero movies, remakes, quality TV shows
    • dubstep died (thank god)
    Politics & Economics
    • China becomes the world's largest economy by some metrics
    • Arab Spring revolutions
    • ISIS' rise and fall
    • Syrian Civil War
    • Putin annexes Crimea
    • Brexit
    • Xi becomes President for life
    • Many minorities including LGBT gain public acceptance
    • Trump
    • increasing concerns over climate, overpopulation, pandemics and aging populations
    • Great Recession and post-recession growth in the West
    Tech & Science
    • mobile boom: sales of smartphones overtake PCs
    • CRISPR
    • mass production of electric cars
    • blockchain
    • deep learning
    • private space companies
    • gravitational waves
    • Higgs boson
    • liquid water on Mars
    • black hole pics
    • landing on a comet and the far side of the Moon
     
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  6. MLMVSS

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    While the 2000s taught us about using the Internet, the 2010s taught us how huge of an impact it’ll have on us, both good and bad.

    Also:

    Politics:
    - Assange/Snowden and other leakers
    - Russia
    - China
    - Iran
    - North Korea
    - Potentially Hong Kong
    - Mexico and illegal immigrants
    - Obama and Trump
    - “Refugee” crisis
    - More LGBT acceptance
    - Right-wing populism, and anti-Establishment Left-wing populism
    - When the Woke Left switched from the lovers of Family Guy and South Park to virtue-signaling SJWs
    - The Right transitioning from social/financial conservatism to national conservatism
    - Everyone but Neoliberals and anyone aligned with the Chicoms finally unite against censorship
    - Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan
    - Cold War II
    - Antifa and neo-fascists make a comeback
    - Hackers, WannaCry and DDOS attacks affecting governmental servers
    - Obamacare website (lol)
    - Brexit (which will be going on until at least the 2060s at this rate, but throwing it in)
    - Less stigma against cannibis
    - First decade in centuries (and probably in history) where the USA didn’t have a recession (bull market from 2009-19 and continuing), but also the slowest growth since the 1930s


    Media/society:
    - unoriginal movie remakes
    - slow death of the legacy media
    - The decade where The Onion is more reliable news than any other Mainstream media source.
    - 2000s was the electronic Wild West; the Internet becoming more centralised in 2010s
    - Youtube/Twitter journalism
    - Amazon
    - Netflix/Hulu and the rise of streaming
    - stupid challenges (condom snorting, cinnamon, tide pods)
    - outrage over everything
    - The Great Meme War (continuing into the 2020s)
    - Memes were starting to be called memes rather than just GIFs or running gags
    - When Mainstream Twitter wars weren’t political, but over whether a dress was blue or gold.
    - Fidget spinners
    - Vaping and juuls
    - Measles making a comeback
    - PARTY ROCK!
     
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  7. onceaking

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    Here are some things not included so far:

    David Bowie's death.
    Historical child abuse cases.
    Banks were forced to open up their data.
    VAR came to football.
    Liverpool breaking a point record but still failing to win the Premier League.
    Neymar breaks the transfer record costing €222 million.
    Russian Olympic and Paralympic ban.
    Lance Armstrong exposed as a drug cheat.
    MH370 disappearance.
    India revokes special status of Kashmir.
    Sahle-Work Zewde becomes the first female president of Ethiopia.
    Robert Mugabe loses power.
    Robert Mugabe's death.
    George HW Bush's death.
    Billy Graham's death.
    Rachel Held Evens sudden death.
    The evangelical church's fallout over politics.
    A number of church leaders publically denouncing their faith including Joshua Harris and Reuben Morgan.
    Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes the 266th pope.
    Abortion becomes legal in Ireland.
    Mass firing and resignations of politicians in the Conservative party.
     
  8. LavaMe

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    It depends on how far out in the future you are talking. In a hundred years I think they’ll remember this as the time Western Civilization completed its collapse to the detriment of the world.
     
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  9. The 2010 was the last "normal" time in my opinion.
    Facebook was not that much popular like today, not everyone had a smartphone in their pockets, and people generally were less dependent on Internet.
    How kids in my neighbourhood spent their free time in 2010?
    Playing football, doing sports, running, playing with each other, generally spending a lot of time outdoor.
    Nowadays, kids spending 4 hours a day in Internet is becoming a pretty normal scenario.
    Younger and younger kids are having social media accounts.

    I see kids on playgrounds and often they are more focused on monitors of their phones than what is happening around them. They do photos, videos and they come and laugh to the monitor.

    In my opinion, its scary.
     
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  10. fredisthebes

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    I think it marked the beginning of the end of the way people view the internet, as being something not separate from their lives but a part of it. It isn't something you make an active choice to sit down at a computer to access, at least for most people, but something you rely on constantly in your car, to play your TV and music, to navigate around town, to schedule your life and give you reminders, etc. You don't choose to log off any more, and the expectation is that you are always available.

    A shift away from party politics into so-called 'identity' politics too, and an increasingly polarised culture in general. Although this goes hand in hand with the blurring of the boundary between the internet and real life.

    It's still strange to me that twitter trends are considered proper news. Can you imagine a headline about what people were posting on myspace 15 years ago in the mainstream press? Strange times.
     
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    Let's not make Trump any bigger than he is; he is just a member of a whole wave of authoritarian populist leaders. Others are Orban (Hungary), Kaczynski (Poland), Duterte (Philipines), Bolsonaro (Brasil), Trump (US) and the latetst one is Bojo (UK). This is what they will remember; democracy under pressure everywhere.
     
  13. Why is that scary? It's just another form of entertainment for them and socialization. How is it any more or less scary than playing tag or hide and seek? There's no reason that kids taking pictures and laughing together should be scary.
     
  14. Trump's more of a cultural phenomenon. You cannot escape him, the ether is constantly filled with 'Trump said...'. At one point he was more popular than sex.
     
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  15. It is, since origin of first Iphone and since social medias became very popular, percentage of kids experiencing depression raises!
    https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/03/14/schools-grapple-with-student-depression-as-data.html
     
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  16. Why is that scary?
    Kids became more interested in virtual world than reality.
    Why is that scary?
    Every 10 years old can have an access to porn in their pocket. They can watch whatever they want, they can make internet contact with anyone.
    There is a raise in cybrebulling.
    Kids nowadays has poorer social skills than past generations.
    This is scary!
    Your logic sounds the same like people saying "Yo, porn is cool, what is wrong with it? Its natural"
     
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  17. Uh, no, it does not sound the same as that at all.... Your example was kids taking pictures and videos with each other. That's what I was responding to, and there is nothing harmful about that.

    How on earth does me defending kids taking pictures with each other equal me saying porn isn't harmful? That's ridiculous.
     
  18. It isnt literally as you putted it out.
    I mean the tolerance towards that what is happening right now. It can be harmless, okay, kids taking photos and ect.
    But statistics are scary! I think we should really rethink how kids should be using social medias and smartphones.
     

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