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How will the 2010s be remembered?

  • 20-11-2015 10:03am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭


    So were nearly 6 years into the 2010s and I’m just wondering how you think this decade will be looked back upon in future years? Compared to the 70s/80s/90s etc? Culturally, economically and musically? I’ve listed some good and bad points, I live in the north so there some UK references:

    Good:
    - First African American president (his presidency anyway)
    - Gay rights progress
    - Improved phone technology
    - Netflix/Rise of internet streaming
    - Game of thrones
    - London 2012 Olympics

    Bad:
    - Worldwide economic downturn (biggest since the great depression)
    - Islamic Terrorism/ISIS
    - Afghanistan War/Continued war on terror
    - Disintegration of Iraq and the middle east & Syrian civil war
    - Migrant crisis (including the 1000s dying crossing the Mediterranean each year)
    - Austerity
    - Japanese tsunami
    - Mass Irish emigration
    - 2011 London Student riots
    - Stagnate wage growth
    - Erosion of civil liberties

    Others worth a mention; Arab Spring, Scottish and EU Referendums, Social Media, Selfies, Tattoos, Gangnam style.

    Its been a mixture of good and bad overall but undoubtedly it will be overshadowed by the global financial crisis and sluggish recovery that has dominated this decade.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    I would say it will be remembered as the Decade of Terrorism.

    Huh, the 1910s were a decade of global war too. Let's hope we're not due a big one in 2039 as well!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Hopefully, as the decade that the EU project came apart at the seams.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    conorhal wrote: »
    Hopefully, as the decade that the EU project came apart at the seams.

    Excellent, let's pray that the boat falls apart at the seams while the storm is lashing the sides.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I think it will be more defined by the latter part of the decade and the (hopeful) resolution of a lot of the problems outlined in the OP like Syria etc.

    Culturally... well I'm gonna take a gamble and say that the Star Wars trilogy will be massive, probably also remembered for the huge amounts of super-hero films. I wouldn't even hazard a guess at the music!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    It will mainly be remembered for Cronuts and Shia Le Bouf.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I think 2018 will be remembered as the year I landed on the moon.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    - Game of thrones

    Seriously?

    A show about orcs and dragons? It would be depressing to think a decade could be summed up by using it as some cultural yardstick.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 307 ✭✭Figbiscuithead


    I think you summed up the decade in your OP but I'd add the Tinder phenomenon to that along with selfies and mindfulness.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Fetty Wap is pretty much the only good thing about this decade.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Bulbous Salutation


    Microaggressions and safe spaces.

    Online outrage.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Microaggressions and safe spaces.

    Online outrage.

    Please stop, you are triggering me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    Apps. Apps for everything. Apps for Apps. Tindr as someone already mentioned and the acceptability of online dating or at least online hook-ups.


    Youtube and the rise of ordinary-average-people* celebrities -- which is related to your streaming topic; on demand content. Suprised more movie and music celebs haven't gotten involved.

    *And by "ordinary-average people" I mean attractive-28yr-olds-who-still-look-&-act-like-teenagers-with-desirable-accents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Seriously?

    A show about orcs and dragons? It would be depressing to think a decade could be summed up by using it as some cultural yardstick.
    No it would be remembered as a show that wasn't afraid to get rid of main characters. Anyway I think it will be remembered as decade of good television and bad superhero movies and not much better biopics of Britons with some sort disability, sickness, out of place sexual orientation.

    Also a decade when make up went truly insane.

    On a more serious note , I think it will be remembered as a decade of migration in Europe and Asia/Africa at least.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    there are no orcs in GOT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    there are no orcs in GOT

    The stupidity of people who have a pop at things without knowing what they are having a pop at is highly amusing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    - Improved phone technology
    - Netflix/Rise of internet streaming
    More than just "improved phone technology", this decade will be known for the takeover of mobile technology and the realisation of the "ubiquitous Internet". Actually here's an article on this topic that was written sometime around 2000/2001: http://www.techsparks.com/The-Ubiquitous-Internet-Anywhere-Anytime-Any-Device.html#

    It's been talked about since the Internet went mainstream, but it was only really achieved when smartphones began to take over. The next five years will be dominated by "The internet of things", which is about interconnecting every other device besides your phones and TVs, and that's what this decade will be remembered for technology-wise - how the Internet finally became something that existed everywhere and was used by practically everybody.

    Even in the 2000s, the internet was still a shopping and research tool, and you only spent any "social" time on it if you were bored in work or were otherwise a geek.
    The mobile device revolution changed this, meaning even the biggest technophobes are now internet connected, all the time. Magazines and newpapers thought things were bad in the 2000s, but it's the dawn of the smartphone that has absolutely annihilated them.

    By the end of the decade, the market share of the traditional content delivery of print media, and cable/satellite TV will have absolutely slumped.
    - Worldwide economic downturn (biggest since the great depression)
    That happened in the last decade. If anything the 2010s will be known for the upturn that began in 2013/2014.
    - Islamic Terrorism/ISIS
    ISIS will be the headliner for Islamic terrorism this decade, but every decade since at least the 80s has had Islamic fundamentalism as a major feature.
    - Afghanistan War/Continued war on terror
    Again, sooo last decade :)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    The stupidity of people who have a pop at things without knowing what they are having a pop at is highly amusing.

    :D:D

    Just tell me...are there dragons?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    This decade won't be remembered at all, due to the imminent apocalypse after the armies of Rome engage Mohammed at Dabiq. Or something like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    :D:D

    Just tell me...are there dragons?
    Yes, but their importance to the overall storyline isn't enormous. Not yet anyway. You couldn't say in any sense that it's a show "about Dragons".


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    seamus wrote: »
    Yes, but their importance to the overall storyline isn't enormous. Not yet anyway. You couldn't say in any sense that it's a show "about Dragons".

    The genre is fantasy.

    I'm still laughing that someone thought announcing that there were no hobgoblins or wraiths or whatever in it would make me revise my appreciation!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    This decade has been the worst for music, there's very little I like culturally about this decade. Musically it has been dominated by a kind of 1950s blandness/candyfloss conservatism ie Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, crap dance music. There's no edge/attitude. It's difficult for me to express how much I am completely indifferent to mainstream culture. Nothing gets through the gates anymore, you don't get something like The Prodigy breaking into the top ten, it's just generic pop and indie-lite rubbish with inane lyrics and it's very hard to find new music even in alternative circles. Everything has become too polished, too professionalised, it's the anathema to raw, creative energy. This also applies to films, it's very hard to make an indie production nowadays and get any kind of distribution according to some directors I've heard. And where you might get something raw and not quite polished it's immediately written off by the average film goer because they expect this bland, sleek, corporate kind of style that's so dominant.

    I hate the fact that the internet has become so ubiquitous, I'm not a technophobe but the plethora of devices that can connect to the net means a kind of instant gratification environment. People don't take the time out to learn an instrument, read a novel, paint a picture because it's easier just to get instant gratification on a phone/tablet etc. I also hate the economic policies that have been imposed, it's a decade of neoliberalism and a very strident right which I very much dislike. Also the fashion has been terrible, hipsterism was an abomination though thankfully it seems to be on the way out. People say the 00s were sh1t but they weren't, 2000-2004 had some very interesting music, it was kind of experimental, a jumble of styles existing side by side. Then you had some great tv shows eg BSG, and although the economic prosperity of that era was built on a mirage, there was still an air of false optimism. Films weren't great but overall I think the 00s weren't too bad. The 2010s though are a like a monotone grey, just plodding, uninspired, cheap, shallow.

    I detest the culture of selfies. The technological revolution seems quite superficial to me, smart phones are just a refinement on existing paradigms or so I've read, there's nothing really new, just bells and whistles. More crucially progress in space tech has really grinded to a halt. NASA aren't getting the funding they need, the Orion manned launch has been pushed back to 2023, I mean this sucks. There's like an anti opitimistic, anti forward looking culture, it's the age of the banker and the pointless conflicts in the ME, Islamic terrorism and the like, really pointless, the repugnant side of human nature and insular/myopic. It's just a blah time in human history. We need that forward looking spirit that gave us the moon landings (yes, I know cold war competition but even so I think it transcended that). Compare the 2010s to the 1960s and you'll see what I mean. Hell even compare the 2010s to the 1990s/00s and it comes off short. The only good things about this decade are Game of Thrones, Ghost, Animals as Leaders, Turbo Kid, the rise of craft beers, progress in LGBT rights and some films such as Your Highness and This is the End. That's it! Everything else sucks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Samaris wrote: »
    Excellent, let's pray that the boat falls apart at the seams while the storm is lashing the sides.

    When the storm is caused by the thrashing of the deranged child who is working the remote control at the edge of the duckpond... then, yeah, Abandon ship!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I think historically, the 2010s (certainly the first half of them anyway) will be amalgamated into the same period of history as the 2000s. Everything that's happening now is either a direct continuation or an indirect consequence of something which was set in motion during the 2000s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I think historically, the 2010s (certainly the first half of them anyway) will be amalgamated into the same period of history as the 2000s. Everything that's happening now is either a direct continuation or an indirect consequence of something which was set in motion during the 2000s.

    You could say the same about 13,820,000,000 BC :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Political Correctness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I'd agree with Seamus, the big difference has been all the norms have started using the internet. The technology was there for decades, it's just it was made more accessible. People that would have insulted you as a nerd 10 years ago are now calling you up asking for help.

    I would hope the current internet culture is temporary, that all the madness you see online is just the world coming to terms with this very powerful tool. Access to information isn't a problem anymore. It's shifting through all the nonsense to get useful information that's the problem for the modern human.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    there are no hob goblins wither, there are wrAITHS


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭custard gannet


    seamus wrote: »

    By the end of the decade, the market share of the traditional content delivery of print media, and cable/satellite TV will have absolutely slumped.

    10 years ago we were told that the internet would kill off brick and mortar stores, yet the streets are still packed and every newly built shopping centre in Europe seems to be built with no bigger aim than to be bigger than its predecessor. Just as we were told the VCR would kill off a night at the pictures. While the DVD killed off the video and the internet killed off the DVD, the cinema is here to stay.

    Same, I reckon, for satellite TV. It has never been easier to pirate live sport and american TV shows, yet sky digital has more subscribers than it ever had. People don't always want to binge watch- people like to just sit yourself down and watch whatever the TV throws at you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭Copa Mundial


    What sticks out in my mind, thus far:

    Nationally: Economic strife and instability, Gay rights progress in Ireland, murder of Elaine O'Hara, cold winter of 2011/dismal summer of 2012, ATM digger raids, Berkeley balcony tragedy.

    Internationally: Mandela dying, Sandyhook shooting, North Korea's empty threats, massive VW recall, ISIS and the situation in the Middle East, Charlie Hebdo and the recent Paris attacks.

    Just a snippet of what came to my head. Advances in science and tech should be in there somewhere. I'm sure the 1916 commemorations next year will be significant.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    The decade when the widespread doping in sport was uncovered...in cycling and and running anyways. Maybe all the other sports will have their day of reckoning in the 20s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Bunch of ****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Culturally it will be remembered for the stark contrast between audio & visual forms of entertainment. An incredibly bland, by the numbers music scene for the most part (not saying there's no exceptions) but an absolute golden age of television, ironically at the same time that millions of people are consuming "TV shows" via streaming & downloads rather than traditional TV sets & services.

    Politically obviously Islamic terrorism will feature in any account of this decade, but that's been present in previous times too. What will hopefully mark this decade is the realisation by people of the importance of institutions & state stability i.e. that getting rid of leaders the West doesn't like does not automatically result in a peaceful & democratic future but can instead lead to anarchy & an even worse security situation. We've been slow learners but I reckon Western powers will eventually figure that one out by the end of the 2010s.


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