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Re: End of a Decade

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Post by alexanderchr »

larnmar wrote: post #9

I feel like decades stopped having distinctive identities somewhere round 2000. Previous decade-by-decade changes from the 50s to the 60s to the 70s to the 80s to the 90s were, it must be admitted, mostly aesthetic rather than being the “fundamental changes in society” that people like to pretend — people in general didn’t become greedier in 1980 and less greedy again in 1990. But there were huge changes in the aesth…

Almost ten years old article on this, but still (more?) relevant

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-...

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by mettamage »

varjag wrote: post #17
chansiky wrote: post #15

I think for sure the rise of app and web economies have been the defining characteristic of this decade. They have had an unexpected monopoly on our attentions. From memes, to changes in consumer behavior, to social uprisings, to mass shootings, to instagram influencers, to determining elections, it would take a lot to convince me that there was not a single greater force that influenced us more in the past ten years…

> Its almost hard to imagine what life was like before things like twitter, uber, spotify, youtube, and to think that they were either only a few years old or barely taking their first steps at the beginning of the decade is mind-blowing. All things you listed were founded in the previous decade, and indeed nothing in tech of this decade would be shocking to someone in 2009. Based on this I expect the next decade wil…

Sure, from the technology innovation perspective I 100% a gree with you. But IMO chansiky has a point with the social aspect of it all.

In 2008 it all felt new or at least new-ish. In 2008 I did not have a YouTube addiction or kicked off a Facebook addiction. Those things started happening at the beginning of this decade.

People are beginning to have more well-defined opinions about these big companies. I have non-techy friends who left FB, for example.

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Post by unnouinceput »

Quote: "What should we take away from the 2010 decade?"

Take that is not over yet, the 2010's will end in over a year from now, so still plenty things to happen inside this particular decade.

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Post by summonedskul »

gsich wrote: post #13

The decade is not over. The gregorian calendar has no year "0", so decades start at for example: 2011-01-01 till 2020-12-31. I don't use it that way either.

Wrong - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s

The 2010s is the current decade in the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 2010, and will end on 31 December 2019.

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Post by isostatic »

newshorts wrote: post #3

The comments about neo liberalization at the end make me wonder if the “20s” will be remember as an era of Anti globalization and nationalism. We saw it start to take hold about halfway through this decade and I wonder if the trend will continue.

Rising nationalism in the 20s and 30s eventually leading to major armed conflict from 39 onwards.

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Post by phoe-krk »

> Everything has gone from centralized to distributed.

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google like this. (Microsoft also does.)

The illusion of decentralization given by "you don't need a publisher, you need Amazon" and "you don't need marketing, you need a Facebook page" is one of their most successful creations. We haven't gone decentralized. We've given even more power into singular technology monopolies and eliminated many of the intermediaries that gave us actual choice of who to ask for publishing and how to market our products.

Now it's "sell it on Amazon"/"market it on Facebook" or you just don't exist at all.

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Post by mirekrusin »

Tinder in the main bullet points but not cryptocurrency/blockchain (hype or not, whatever, it was big thing throughout the decade), the "big bang" of deep learning or quantum computers?

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by petercooper »

gsich wrote: post #13

The decade is not over. The gregorian calendar has no year "0", so decades start at for example: 2011-01-01 till 2020-12-31. I don't use it that way either.

A decade can be any range of ten years. By common modern convention, we tend to refer to them as things like 80s, 90s, etc. No-one would argue that 1990 was in the "80s". Wikipedia has a bit more on this convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by thundergolfer »

mirekrusin wrote: post #28

Tinder in the main bullet points but not cryptocurrency/blockchain (hype or not, whatever, it was big thing throughout the decade), the "big bang" of deep learning or quantum computers?

Crypto is not a normal part of “everyday living”, which is what those bullet points are concerned with.
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