How Will People Remember the first decade of the 21st century?

[Mr Khan]

Technology. This was the decade that cell-phones and broadband internet really became not only mainstream, but integral to daily life.

 

Much like how at the end of the 20th century, we generally associated the 1900s as being around the time that the "modern" world really began, with the mass-adoption advent of electricity and radio, as well as the invention of air travel. The people of the future for whom our communications ways will be even more integral will see this decade as really the first decade of their modern world.