(03-23-2015, 05:54 PM)Arjahn Wrote: Oh and I am officially calling it the "apostrophe tens" from now on.
Oh, whoops I've been calling 'em the "twenty teens"
(03-21-2015, 06:22 PM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote: Lots and lots of revolutions and uprisings and civil wars and terrorism.
this guy's pretty much on point here. Ukraine and ISIS are pretty much gonna be the topics you'll see in geography textbooks for sure. The London, Ukraine, and St. Louis riots are probably gonna be tucked in somewhere there, too.
I'd go on a limb and say that the other things that're definitely worth mentioning is the age of tablet computing, the steady legalization of marijuana, the explosion of social media hitting the mainstream [Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr], and increased openness in one's sexual identity; gender identity awareness in particular
(actually, on the topic of sexual identity, isn't same-sex marriage in the US really picking up steam now as opposed to the mid-2000's when it was just like, 5 states?)
...and dubstep. Hoo boy it's gonna be so much fun telling my children just how much fun 2012 was, when Skrillex, "the dubstep dad", entered the mainstream