| Mr Khan said: 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. |
I disagree ...
There was no consumer electronics that were new or particularly revolutionary in this decade, and much of what you are associating with this decade began in the 1990s or 1980s. What made the early 1900's so important was not the adoption of the technologies it was the invention of technologies and processes (assembly line) which changed the world dramatically; and many of the technologies that were invented in the early 1900s did not (really) see high levels of adoption until the 1950s.
There is one exception I would like to make on my previous statement though ... One revolutionary market really began in this decade but we probably won't really see the impact until we're mostly retired; consumer robotics. Items like the Roomba (robotic vaccuume) and a vast array of primitive robotic toys have started us down the path which will eventually lead to more and more robots showing up in day to day life.
