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Re: End of a Decade

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Post by amursft »

thundergolfer wrote: post #5

There's a lot of.. weird stuff in here. - The idea that Apple, Amazon, and Google entering into healthcare would be taking healthcare services "away from centralized gatekeepers." What? - Two lines about Climate Change in the whole post, and the 2nd is "We’ll remember this as the decade of unfortunate procrastination." That's quite the understatement. - "We’ve also had more equal access to the good parts of economic…

thanks for the critical feedback and thoughts.

as another poster put it, perhaps disintermediation would be a better word to describe it. Individuals now have power to do things that they didn't before, or for much cheaper. Can see this happening in healthcare once 'big tech' is involved. It will be good for healthcare costs at least in the United States.

any suggestions to improve it? or do you think the decade will be remembered for totally different things?

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by amursft »

csomar wrote: post #25

> With 6 billion people on the planet Did he just miss 1.7 billion people?

Haha, thanks. I did. Do you mind if I incorporate your point? I was speaking a bit colloquially, but the correct number would be better.

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by summonedskul »

gsich wrote: post #32
summonedskul wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No you are wrong - The word 'decade' is not tied to any specific set of 10 years, so you can mark off any set of 10 years and call it a decade: 2000-2009, or 2005-2014, for example. By your logic the year 2000 should be part of the 90's which it wasn't.

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by imtringued »

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…

The difference is that it is now part of daily life, even in developing nations. In the 00s it was mostly the early adopters in rich western countries that were using modern tech.

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by agentultra »

Teaching our kids about Siri and Alexa... and how to subvert it.

By not participating. Reading books. Enjoying time together at a park. Finding mirth in games and late night conversations.

By teaching them to pick up their own groceries, shop local, use the library, see local performances, and enjoying our neighbourhood.

If 2010’s were all about staying in and binging on Netflix I hope the next decade will be about getting out and letting our computers gather dust.

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by rvz »

> The healthcare system is broken in ways that are hard to fix.

So we need more of the same old FAANG guys to 'fix' this? Do we really want our health data to be controlled in the hands of these FAANG companies because they are able to disrupt anything they touch? I hope not.

> What should we take away from the 2010 decade?

2010s: Was the discovery of democratising access to anything by 'programming an app for that' with collecting user data from a tool called a smartphone, which brought in a surge of unprofitable app / web companies IPOing everywhere and crazy tech companies raising ridiculous funding rounds with huge losses with little to no profit. I cannot see this continuing on into the 2020s. So my so-called 'machine learning crystal ball' forecasts something else.

2020s: Will have a tech crash due to this hyperactivity of these startups which many of them will shutdown. The transportation market will start to shift to carbon neutral alternatives over fossil-fuel based solutions in the late 2020s. AR will beat VR to consumer mainstream and will overlay our daily lives with wearables. Cryptocurrency becomes a financial alternative in the mid-2020s. Privacy will be more controversial and questioned by many users as we keep giving it away to be collected by FAANG companies and we start to have information which can be easily faked making it easy to spread disinformation, ie. mainstream fake news.

Now if you excuse me, I'm going to buy this cryptocurrency dip and to prepare my tinfoil rucksack and to continue to buy multiple newspapers from the local shop across the street. Hopefully that should be my new-decade's resolution.

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by pluma »

gsich wrote: post #32
summonedskul wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes wrong. The first decade was either 9 or 10 years (depending on whether you want to be weird and include 1 BC), every decade after that was 10 years starting at 'X0 and ending at 'X9. This is how the common usage defines the term.

A lot of concepts in daily human lives get fuzzy near the edges. That's not a failing on humans, that's how language works. This isn't scientific or perfectly rational, yes, but neither are humans.

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

agentultra wrote: post #46

Teaching our kids about Siri and Alexa... and how to subvert it. By not participating. Reading books. Enjoying time together at a park. Finding mirth in games and late night conversations. By teaching them to pick up their own groceries, shop local, use the library, see local performances, and enjoying our neighbourhood. If 2010’s were all about staying in and binging on Netflix I hope the next decade will be about g…

More likely, wearable computing and augmented reality will allow people to get out of the house and to the parks or local performances, while still remaining fully jacked into the social-media world.

As for books and libraries: when libraries are upgraded these days, or new ones are built, the new buildings focus heavily on providing people with connectivity and games, with books relegated to an afterthought that you have to request from closed stacks (i.e. you have to already know what you want and patiently wait for it to arrive). I don’t envy any parent trying to bring their children up with 20th-century notions of reading.

Re: End of a Decade

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Post by rhlsthrm »

randomsearch wrote: post #19
varjag wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

2020s = VR

Do you think VR will be more mainstream than AR? I tend to believe that once AR becomes really good it will be more mainstream than VR because it can integrate with your normal life and provide useful things like a HUD and also crazy cool things like interactive holograms.
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