Random Observation/Comment #633: Writing this blogpost made me feel old. I don’t know if I’ll be nostalgic of the 2010’s like I was of the 90’s.
Why this list?
Thinking of life in decades is really strange when so many little things that happen get enveloped by the larger span and gradient of trends and fads. I had a lot of fun reflecting on what major technological impacts have had on global emergent patterns to adopting new/better/worse ways of getting things done. Maybe one day I’ll look back at this list and just laugh — “remember when you actually typed on a keyboard” or “remember when Facebook, Google, and Amazon were all huge companies with monopolies on consumer adoption?”
- A smart phone in everyone’s hands globally
- The rise of tablets
- Emergence of minimalist design
- Flat screens to curved screens to no bevel screens to infinity screens
- New age of advertising away from regularly scheduled programs
- Binge watching and on-demand steaming
- Explosion of content creation
- The beginnings of AR and VR (the short lived Google Glass experiment)
- Growth of Internet stardom and Influencers
- Vaping (before it got banned)
- E-dating as a default way of meeting people
- The decade of Facebook data sharing
- The death of privacy
- Recommendations and information bubbles
- Beard fashion with undercuts
- A decade of memes! The meme Renaissance.
- Uberfying everything
- Beginning of the gig economy downfall
- Technology promoting remote working conditions
- Bitcoin (Cryptocurrency) to DAOs/ICOs to blockchain to LAOs /STOs
- Decade of growth and recovery before the great recession
- Emergence of awareness in the 0.1% divide
- All the comic book movies
- Podcast explosion
- Wireless everything
- Our relationship with audio – voice-enabled commands
- Smart home boom
- Decline of traditional media
- Black mirror was right
- A decade of making 2020 vision jokes
~See Lemons Remembering the 2010s
