> With 6 billion people on the planet Did he just miss 1.7 billion people?
Yes, yes he did. To be honest this post is riddled with mistakes and weird assertions. It’s not very good.
End of a Decade
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#32The 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.
Not wrong. Gregorian starts at year 1. If you want a decade to be 10 years, it can't end with 10, that would be only 9 years.
Daily usage differs from that definition of course, but that's not the point.
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#33I can't help but think that the end of printed instructions can be shoehorned in here somehow. If I do get printed instructions with something, they're virtually unusable either because the type is far too small to read, or because it's all hieroglyphs without words. When I look for instructions online, I'm finding videos more and more often, even for something like a recipe.
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#34> With 6 billion people on the planet Did he just miss 1.7 billion people?
He probably learned the 6 billion people fact sometime during high school and has never updated it since then.
(I may be projecting, as I'm often guilty of this especially w.r.t global geography)
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#35> 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…
I think he should have written "disintermediated" for those examples. There are now fewer intermediaries, maybe only a single layer - but the companies in that layer occupy almost all of it.
You can publish books without having to worry about publishing and distribution - if you go through the publication-and-distribution vertically integrated monolith.
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#36> 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…
I think he should have written "disintermediated" for those examples. There are now fewer intermediaries, maybe only a single layer - but the companies in that layer occupy almost all of it. You can publish books without having to worry about publishing and distribution - if you go through the publication-and-distribution vertically integrated monolith.
I agree. Publishing overall is substantially easier.
Publishing without going through the publishing monopoly is substantially harder though.
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#37I 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…
I feel that the 00s didn't have a well-defined "youth culture", in the sense that people used for 50s onwards where a culture and visual and musical style all combine. But the end of the 2010s definitely does have this, at least for women - Youtube/instagram have evolved a distinctive makeup style!
To me the 00s is the "war decade" and the 2010s the "financial crisis decade", despite the defining events being in 2001 and 2008 respectively. Post-2015 is the "chaos decade", where politics stopped attempting to make sense.
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#38The 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.
I remember left-antiglobalisation (against free movement of goods) being huge in the late 90s and early 00s. The days of huge clashes at the G20 meetings. This eventually got suppressed by the police, and now we've shifted to "right"-antiglobalisation with a very different focus against free movement of people and the use of trade policy against national enemies.
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#39> 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…
I think he should have written "disintermediated" for those examples. There are now fewer intermediaries, maybe only a single layer - but the companies in that layer occupy almost all of it. You can publish books without having to worry about publishing and distribution - if you go through the publication-and-distribution vertically integrated monolith.
Yeah, this would totally have been a better / more nuanced way to put it.
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#40The 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.
Let's do the time warp again!