What Will Be Remembered From This Decade? (2010's btw)
 

Everyone has fond memories of this decade and that decade, and most of the time we put on our rose-coloured glasses and see only the good. 30 years from now, what will people remember this decade for? If someone made a theme restaurant, what aesthetic would it pertain to and what would addorn it?

The undercut and the man bun.

Unfortunately, as it were.

30 years from now they might be considered retro hip.

And I restate.

Also, those pants that look like the wearer is walking around with a dump in them.

Not liking this future so far.

Death Grips?

Tattoo sleeves?

The 2010s marked a tremendous technological turning point in global culture. Social media changed the way the world communicated, began to democratize the transmission of news and information introducing a greater transparency of the operations of the ruling class.

It also marked the year mobile overtook television as America's first screen.

Big data created a monumental shift in the world of advertising, and social media management and micro-targeted advertising became the new standards of how products and services were marketed to individuals instead of generational or demographic targeting of the past.

And as the mobile world took over, media consumption changed with it. Binge-watching became the new standard for how programs were consumed. Netflix, Amazon, and other web streaming services eliminated the need for cable television, and the largest percentage of media consumers under 30 cut the cord or were born in a post-cable environment.

Those are the first big generational shifts which come to mind, but I'm sure there are others.

There are: load-in pants.

rise in female comedians, comedians in general being rather lame

what was the occupy movement?

leggings, ass shots

call of duty

edward snowden, nsa surveillance

chipotle burritos

people willing to buy yearly iphones that go up in price

Hopefully Skrillex, dub step, Heavy Metal, vaporwave and nightcore will all be forgotten and we look fondly back at the era of people uploading whole albums of strange and obscure music on YouTube.

wow, I had already forgotten about dub step

I think The Batlord might want a few words with you on this.

Unfortunately, probably the rise of ISIS and its spread into Europe.

Fantastic examples.

I'm still waiting for the majority of culture to come to understand the madness of late capitalism, planned obsolescence, and the engineering of consent with regard to consumer culture (both its history and its social and environmental cost). I'm hopeful that the movement rejecting blind-consumer culture will gain enough momentum to begin to curb the perpetual societal dissatisfaction and horrific global impact we experience today.

By 2015, Android commanded over 50% of the mobile market, surpassing Apple's previous market dominance, offering greater variety, compatibility, affordability, and a larger selection of apps. Apple retains a dedicated audience via its core strengths - a simple and easy-to-use uniform interface across all its devices, a sleek, minimalist design, and, for better or worse, the most effective marketing of any company in the modern age. Still, I'm hopeful that increasingly educated consumers will continue to opt for the greater freedom found outside of Apple's gated community.

Similarly, there has been tremendous growth in the culture of open source technologies certainly deserving of mention. The 2010s saw the rise of an important subculture of both creators and consumers embracing the collective sharing of their content for the betterment of culture as a whole.

Copyright licensing is still embarrassingly archaic in 2015, stubbornly clinging to an irrelevant 20th century business model long-since abandoned by the planet's consumers. In the 2010s, piracy grew from an underground shadowy counterculture to the standard means of media consumption by an entire generation. In the last 5 years there have been intriguing developments in streaming services for both audio and video, but until the Big 6 relinquish their stranglehold on 90% of the world's media, licensing will be a monstrous entanglement of red tape impeding the potential of streaming services. (The Beatles joined the ranks of the streaming market just two days ago.) Still, despite these problems, streaming has offered a level of convenience and accessibility sufficient enough to begin to reduce the practice of piracy in modern culture.

What's wrong with man buns? I think they look good, as long as you haven't shaved your sides. They're practical as well if you have longer hair.

The Donaldson is where it's at.

I didn't say anything was wrong with them, I just said they're a style that the 10s will be remembered for.

What's wrong with vaporwave, huh?

Aight, my bad. I just saw them mentioned in the same sentence as "undercut", and I'm not fond of undercut man buns.

How about people taking pictures of their food and posting them on social media.

Or the fact that the world is more connected then it ever has been but still people hardly seem to talk to each other at all

The rise of blogs/blogging

Iridescent light bulbs. http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l.../lightbulb.gif

Well I've been enlightened on man buns.....whats an undercut tho?

Basically, it's the haircut sported by Macklemore—sides buzzed, top longer and either pushed back, pushed up or pushed to the side with lots of product. There are a lot of variations but a large percentage of dudes in the their 20s have had this hairstyle in the past few years. According to the people who posted these examples in 2013, it's the haircut all men should get.

Oh dear....

Back in my day we used to call a pretty specific goth hairdo undercut.
How things change...

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It's okay, nobody's remembered anything Nea's cared about for about 30 years, and even then it's debatable. He could stop existing now and nobody would know, even his parents.

All I know is nobody has cared about Abba since 95% of this board was born.

**** you and Kesha! :mad:;)

Your quote just means that she got posted twice. I win.

Everyone at the restaurant would be writing yelp reviews, tweeting, instagramming, etc.

^ Your post reminds me of a moment I experienced over Christmas.

I was in the sitting room, enjoying the fire, and when I looked across at my father, he was on his iPad. When I looked across at my uncle, he was doing something on his phone. When I looked across at a thirteen year old kid staying with us, he was on his Kindle. It didn't feel good.

Why is there some thirteen year old kid staying with you?

It's his disowned son.

Haha. He was the son of my mother's friend.

I was hoping this would be about your dad giving your mom's cooking a scathing review on Yelp.

Hansen narrowly avoided....for now.

Hansen? Do you mean Hanson of Mmbop fame?



My mate hums this tune when we trip. Always makes me laugh.