What do you think will be most remembered from the last decade?
I think 9/11 takes the cake. But what about after that? What would be 2nd and 3rd place?
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Obama becoming president. The pointless wars.
9–11 is on the top of the list.
Obama being elected is number two in my book.
I would have to choose the “Crash” of the US economy as number three, but I am an American so I may be biased.
1st: 9/11 and Saddam Hussein’s capture
2nd: Stupid wars in Congo, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mexico, Somalia, Russia and Georgia, etc.. (I could go on for ages)
3rd: Economic crisis
Twilight and Balloon Boy of course! ~
Agree with all the above, plus, for better or worse, the rise of social networking (Facebook, Twitter, IM) and technology for the masses (3G, WiFi, Netbooks, GPS, etc.)
@Axemusica that was my guess but i was hurt more by Billy Mays death.
This may seem odd, but nothing really comes to mind.
@JesusWasAJewbot yea that was kind of a downer, :( I just said Michael Jackson, because musicians are always praised and he was very revolutionary for making music what it has become today.
Genome sequencing becoming a commodity.
@Axemusica But who can forget, “HI BILLY MAYS HERE”
9/11 and Obama will be the big points.
For me, personally, 9/11 wouldn’t be number one because I was so young and geographically removed. GFC and climate change are the two big ones, alongside facebook.
It didn’t have a huge social impact, so it understandably takes a backseat in these sorts of discussions, but in my own mind I’d like to add the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
The marriage of Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.
@iphigeneia The tsunami was a big thing and shouldn’t take a backseat. Your reminder is one more people should read. 350,000 people died, 100 times the number of people lost on 9/11. If those people had lived in different places (Europe or the Americas) we would still be talking about it today. It makes me sad and angry when I think about how quickly we forgot those who were lost.
:^(
Everything and nothing.
Because it is always something.
9/11
Obama
and Metallica’s St Anger (a catastrophe in Heavy Metal history)
@csimme01 Thanks, I’d already resigned myself to the fact that the tsunami is never treated with due respect to its significance. So, it is understandable but not right.
For me I would add the 35W bridge collapse because I’m from Minnesota. You lucky guys from down south probably wouldn’t.
Katrina an the pathetic response for aid. One of my colleagues photographed the high definition footage taken from the only helicopter allowed to fly at ground zero. Juxtapose those images to the “freedom fighting” going on in Iraq at that same time, and the “embedded” reporting from tanks that sensationalized that conflict.
that that creep micheal jackson died. sadly
@Axemusica What do you know about the death of Rudolf Valentino? It was just as big a turnout without the benefit of the media hype. 100 years from now Michael Jackson will be an obscure answer to a trivia question.
9/11
The Iraq fiasco
Katrina and the loss of New Orleans.
The economy going tits up.
The election of Barrack Obama
Cmon guys, what do you remember from the 20th century. Most Americans are historical amnesiacs especially when it comes to cultural events.
Wihout looking it up
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We will remember Barack Obama’s election but will we remember it like Lincoln’s or FDR’s or Nixon.
Current popularity has little to do with longetivity.
9/11, Obama being the president, and possibly, Final Fantasy.
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