Courtesy of FutureTimeline
With a new decade just beginning, the possibilities for change is inevitable. There is always time to look back on the last 10 years though and reflect on how technology changed, what phenomenons occurred, who was affected by natural disasters, etc.
So to help us reflect back on the last decade, here is a list of things that happened from 2010-2019:
2010
• Haiti is struck by a devastating earthquake
• The longest solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs
• Apple debuts the iPad
• The worst marine environmental disaster in US history: Deepwater Horizon explodes
• Scientists create synthetic life
• One-fifth of Pakistan is flooded
• Macular degeneration is curable
• Speech-to-speech translation is common in mobile phones
2011
• British forces begin to withdraw from Afghanistan
• Japan is devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami
• The death of Osama bin Laden
• The world’s first synthetic organ transplant
• The Space Shuttle fleet is retired
• Global population reaches 7 billion
• The Last Harry Potter film is released
• Consumer-level robotics are booming
• World’s first commercial spaceport
2012
• The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (60th anniversary to her accession to the throne)
• London hosts the Olympic Games
• Mars Science Laboratory explores the Red Planet
• Voyager I crosses the heliopause
• Windows 8 is released
• Quad-core smartphones and tablets
• Nintendo launches the Wii U
• The Mayan calendar reaches the end of its current cycle
2013
• North Korea conducts its third nuclear test
• A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk
• The first creation of human embryonic stem cells by cloning
• Birth of a royal baby to Prince William and the Duchess
• China overtakes the USA in scientific research
• The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is launched by NASA
• “What Does the Fox Say?” became a Youtube sensation
• Highly flexible touch sensors are appearing in a range of gadgets
• Launch of the PS4 and Xbox One
• Uruguay becomes the first nation to allow full legalisation of cannabis
• China’s first unmanned Moon landing
2014
• The first gay marriages are held in England and Wales
• Google Glass is launched to the public
• Brazil hosts the FIFA World Cup
• The 100th anniversary of World War I
• The global average Internet connection is broadband
• The new World Trade Center is opened
• The first test flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft
• Laser guns are in naval use
• Smart watches are the latest must-have gadget
• Malaysian Airlines passenger jet disappears
- The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2015
• Personal genome sequencing enters the mainstream
• Five-year survival rates for thyroid cancer are nearing 100%
• Virtual reality makes a comeback
• The first self-regulating artificial heart
- Apple released racially-diverse emojis
• Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in British history
• Windows 10 is released by Microsoft
- Same Sex marriages became legal in the United States
• The New Horizons probe arrives at Pluto
• Electric car ownership reaches 1 million worldwide
2016
• Completion of the Panama Canal expansion project
• Microchipping of all dogs in England
• Rio de Janeiro hosts the Olympic Games
• The Juno probe arrives at Jupiter
• The mining industry is highly automated
• Agricultural robots are increasingly common on farms
- Harambe, a gorilla killed after a boy fell into his enclosure, became an internet phenomenon
• High-definition CCTV cameras are found everywhere
• Pokémon Go became the most popular downloaded game
• China completes the largest environmental cleanup in the world
2017
• Total solar eclipse in the US
• The JFK files are released
• Sales of electric and hybrid trucks reach 100,000 annually
• Web-connected video devices exceed the global population
• Electronic paper sees widespread use
• Wireless, implantable devices that monitor health conditions in real time
• A new treatment for prostate cancer
2018
• South Korean city Pyeongchang hosts the Winter Olympics
• InSight touches down on Mars
- Royal Wedding of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle
2019
• The 5G standard is released
• US copyright begins to expire, starting with all works from 1923
• The first soft landing on the far side of the Moon
- First Photo of a black hole was captured
• Automated freight transport
• LEDs dominate the lighting industry
