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What Will History Say About The 2010s?
The decade that promised so much, but delivered so little
This past decade has been one of the weirdest and eventful in recent times. It is certainly the most interesting since I was born.
We have had a slow recovery from a financial crash, Britain deciding to leave the election and the election of Donald Trump as President.
The last one by itself is hard to believe! If someone had told me at the start of the decade that Trump would be President in 2016, I would have laughed in their face!
Yet, despite all this upheaval, there is still the sense that this decade has been a lost one. What actually happened? Have we moved forward as a species or have we regressed?
If you’re looking at it from a political angle, it’s concerning. The world has lurched towards populism, a result of the global financial crash in 2008. The left has been unable to formulate a response since the crash.
Social media and technology have become more entrenched in our lives. We share our lives on Facebook and Instagram with impunity and they share our data with impunity too.
Technology has increased at a rapid rate. The first iPad was released in 2010, which was seen as a gamechanger, now it’s somewhat of an…
