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* On September, 17 2011 hundred protesters flood in the financial district of [[Wall Street]] in [[New York City]] this started a series of demonstration and encampment called [[Occupy Wall Street]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/17/technology/occupy_wall_street/index.htm |title=Hundreds of protesters descend to 'Occupy Wall Street'|publisher= money.cnn.com|accessdate=2011-09-17|date=17 September 2011}}</ref>
* On September, 17 2011 hundred protesters flood in the financial district of [[Wall Street]] in [[New York City]] this started a series of demonstration and encampment called [[Occupy Wall Street]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/17/technology/occupy_wall_street/index.htm |title=Hundreds of protesters descend to 'Occupy Wall Street'|publisher= money.cnn.com|accessdate=2011-09-17|date=17 September 2011}}</ref>
* The [[New START]], a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the [[Russian Federation]] entered into force.
* The [[New START]], a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the [[Russian Federation]] entered into force.
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* President [[Kim Jong-il]] of [[North Korea]] dies at 69 after governing the country for 17 years. His death diffuses insecurity and fear for stability of the Asian region, although initially the son of the deceased leader, [[Kim Jong-un]], succeeded to his father.
* President [[Kim Jong-il]] of [[North Korea]] dies at 69 after governing the country for 17 years. His death diffuses insecurity and fear for stability of the Asian region, although initially the son of the deceased leader, [[Kim Jong-un]], succeeded to his father.

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The 2010s, pronounced "twenty-tens"[1] or "two thousand (and) tens",[2][3][4][5] is the current decade which began on 1 January 2010 and will end on 31 December 2019. The decade is also the second decade of the 21st century and 3rd millennium.[6][7][8][9]

The decade began amidst a global financial crisis that started in the late 2000s, after approximately two and a half decades of prosperity, economic growth as well as income inequality, and increased globalization. In particular, the ongoing Eurozone debt crisis, which stemmed from these economic problems, first became pronounced in May 2010 and continues to threaten the possibility of a global recovery. Other economic issues such as inflation, and an increase in commodity prices, sparked immense unrest in many lower-income countries. In some countries, particularly Arab ones, this unrest eventually evolved into socio-economic crises which set off numerous revolutions, such as in Kyrgyzstan and Tunisia in 2010, and Libya, Syria, and Egypt in 2011 and 2012. This widespread recent phenomenon is now known as the Arab Spring, and it still continues, as of September 2012.

Mixed pronunciation

Among experts and the general public, there is some disagreement as to how specific years of the 21st century should be pronounced in English.[10] While most people pronounced the years 2000 to 2009 as two thousand _", the pronunciation in the 2010s has been mixed. The year 2010, for example, was referred to by some as "twenty-ten" and by others as "two thousand (and) ten" and this mixed pronunciation continues as of 2012.[11]

Politics and wars

Wars

Main articles: List of wars 2003–2010 and List of wars 2011–present

The prominent wars of the decade so far include:

International wars

  • War on Terrorism (2001–present) – refers to several ideological, military, and diplomatic campaigns ostensibly aimed at putting an end to international terrorism by preventing groups defined by the US and its allies as "terrorist" (largely Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas) from posing a threat to the US and its allies, and by putting an end to state sponsorship of terrorism. The campaigns were launched by the United States, with support from NATO and other allies, immediately following the 11 September 2001 attacks which were carried out by al-Qaeda. Today the term has become mostly associated with US/UK-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
    • War in Afghanistan (2001–present) – In 2001, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada intervened into Afghanistan seeking to oust the Taliban and destroy Al-Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.
    • Iraq War (2003–2011) – On 19 August 2010, the last American combat brigade was moved out of Iraq after more than 7 years of warfare.[19] About 50,000 troops remained there through 2011, being designated as "advise and assist brigades" assigned to non-combat operations while retaining the ability to revert to combat operations as necessary. The war was declared formally over in December 2011.

Civil wars, guerrilla wars and political revolutions

See also: Arab Spring and Impact of the Arab Spring
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Since December 17, 2010 and until the present a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests, dubbed Arab Spring, have been taking place throughout the Arab world
  • Arab Spring (17 December 2010 – present) – a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on Friday, 17 December 2010. In December 2010, protests first began, in Tunisia and Algeria. On January 14, 2011, the President of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, resigned after 23 years as President. On 25 January 2011, protests against President Hosni Mubarak began in Egypt. Mubarak resigned on February 11, 2011. Protests against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year-rule then began in Libya, which later developed into a nationwide uprising, and, eventually, a civil war. At the same time, protests started in numerous other Arab countries, including Yemen, Jordan, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia. On 26 January 2011, protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule began in Syria. In March 2011, the uprising intensified, and the Syrian Army was deployed by the government, to quell the popular uprising. In 2012, the Syrian conflict became a civil war, and fighting between the regime forces and the opposition intensified. The Syrian civil war still continues, to the present-day.
  • Libyan civil war (15 February – 23 October 2011) – a series of demonstrations and riots held against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule. The widespread demonstrations, which erupted in response to the high unemployment rate in Libya and the lack of development in the country, rapidly escalated into a civil war as Gaddafi used his military force against the Libyan rebels. As a result, fifty thousand Libyans have died.[16] The civil war came to an end when Gaddafi was killed during the liberation of Sirte on 20 October 2011.
  • Mexican Drug War (2006–present) – an armed conflict fought between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico. Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for quite some time, they have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market in the United States.[17] Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States.[18][19][20] Roughly more than 28,299 people in total were killed between December 2006 until November 2010.[21]
  • Civil war in Chad (2005–present) involved Chadian government forces and several Chadian rebel groups. The government of Chad estimated in January 2006 that 614 Chadian citizens had been killed in cross-border raids.[28] The fighting still continues despite several attempts to reach agreements.
  • Colombian Armed Conflict (1964–present) has changed substantially after the government of Alvaro Uribe. President Juan Manuel Santos took office in 2010 and seeks to continue Uribe's policy about terrorism. The FARC and ELN guerrillas are weaker than ever and divided, with the latter calling for peace talks with the government. Meanwhile, paramilitary forces have demobilized, but irregular drug-trafficking forces called "Bacrim" have gained control over much of the areas that the AUC paramilitaries previously held. The "Bacrim" gangs have allied with guerrillas in some regions of the country like Chocó and Antioquia.

Coups

Main article: List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010

Terrorist attacks

Main article: List of terrorist incidents § 1970–present

The most prominent terrorist attacks committed against civilian population during the decade include:

Nuclear weapons controversies

  • Since 2005, Iran's nuclear program has become the subject of contention with the Western world due to suspicions that Iran could divert the civilian nuclear technology to a weapons program. This has led the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran on select companies linked to this program, thus furthering its economic isolation on the international scene. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence said in February 2009 that Iran would not realistically be able to a get a nuclear weapon until 2013, if it chose to develop one.[29]
  • The United States and Russia sign a treaty to cut nuclear weapons in either nation in Prague in April 2010, a week later U.S. President Barack Obama hosts a Nuclear Security Summit where the attending nations decides to lock onto their nuclear arms, to make sure no terrorists get hands on these weapons of mass destruction, also South Korea was selected to hold the second Nuclear Security Summit in 2012.

Political events

The prominent political events of the decade so far include:

WikiLeaks

  • The international new-media non-profit organization WikiLeaks published three massive sets of documents pertaining to the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, and US diplomacy, which, respectively, were released in April, July, and November 2010. Each of these releases was accompanied by heavy and extensive weeks-long coverage in news media all over the world, and had a strong impact on the global political landscape, with strong reactions from leaders within many major countries.

Americas

Obama signing the New START treaty in Prague.

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  • President Kim Jong-il of North Korea dies at 69 after governing the country for 17 years. His death diffuses insecurity and fear for stability of the Asian region, although initially the son of the deceased leader, Kim Jong-un, succeeded to his father.

Europe

Africa

2011 Egyptian revolution: Demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square on 8 February 2011
  • Between 9–15 January 2011 a referendum was held in Southern Sudan on whether the region should remain a part of Sudan or become independent. In the referendum a majority of 98.83% voted in favour of separation from Sudan and the creation of an independent state.
  • 14 January 2011 – Amidst anti-government demonstrations, Tunisia's President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali dissolves the government, declares a state of emergency, and resigns from office.
  • January–February 2011 – Inspired by the Tunisian demonstrators, thousands of protesters in Egypt call for a resignation or ousting of Hosni Mubarak, longtime president of the nation, who many feel has been in power far too long and has no interests of the public. Mubarak resigns on 11 February.
  • February–October: a popular revolt against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule over Libya leads to thousands of deaths and UN sanctions against the nation's government following a brutal crackdown against protestors.[33]

Oceania

Assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts

Main article: List of assassinations and assassination attempts
Osama bin Laden
Muammar Gaddafi

Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts of the decade so far include:

Disasters

The most prominent disasters of the decade so far include:

Non-natural disasters

Aviation & naval disasters

The wreckage site of the Polish Air Force Tu-154 near Smolensk

Pollution disasters

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill as seen from space by NASA's Terra satellite on 24 May 2010
  • On 20 April 2010, an explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, operating in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, left eleven crewmen dead and resulted in a fire that sank the rig and caused a massive-scale oil spill[39] that became the worst environmental disaster in United States history.[40] On 18 June 2010, oceanographer John Kessler said that the crude gushing from the well contains 40 percent methane, compared to about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits. Methane is a natural gas that could potentially suffocate marine life and create "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives. "This is the most vigorous methane eruption in modern human history," Kessler said.[41] On 20 June an internal BP document was released by Congress revealing that BP estimated the flow could be as much as 100,000 barrels (4,200,000 US gallons; 16,000 cubic metres) per day under the circumstances that existed since the 20 April blowout.[42][43] On 15 July 2010, The BP Oil Spill was stopped for the first time, 86 days after oil started leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.

Natural disasters

Damage in downtown Port-au-Prince, 13 January 2010
Chileans look at tsunami-provoked damage in the city of Pichilemu, following the 2010 Chile earthquake.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: An aerial view of tsunami damage in Tōhoku
The eye of Irene as viewed from the International Space Station

Economics

The Great Recession, which began in the year 2007, officially ended in mid-2009, though unemployment has failed to recover. In the United States, a Gallup poll found that more than half of Americans believe the country is still in a recession.[59] Some economists believe that the 'recession' has not only continued, but is actually a mild economic depression much like the Great Depression of the 1930s.[60] There is an energy crisis in the world due to the protests and riots in the Middle East and North Africa.[61] Production of conventional crude oil peaked in 2004 at 74 million barrels per day, and greater records reached since then represent only small increases that are failing to keep pace with demand from growing countries, such as China and India.[62] This is evident because of the relatively small output that was shut off during the Libya civil war, as well as the failure of releases from strategic reserves to stem high prices.[63][64] The International Energy Agency has found that global crude oil production reached its apex in 2006, meaning production from currently producing oil fields is forecast to drop and future oil supply projections are uncertain.[65][66][67] Another school of opinion attributes the high energy prices in the western world to government regulation.[68]

A sovereign debt crisis in Europe began in early 2010, and the Greek government admitted that it was having difficulties servicing its large sovereign debt. Speculation abounded that it would be unable to make required bond payments due in 2010. causing the Euro to drop in value versus the US dollar and pushing the Greek/German yield spread to almost 4%. In May 2010, Eurozone leaders agreed to a billion euro three year rescue package.[69] However, by the following year, the country's fiscal condition had not improved.[70] In the summer and fall of 2011 bond yields for Italy and Spain spike above 6 percent.[71] China becomes the second largest global economy, surpassing Japan.[72] China currently faces out-of-control inflation, a real estate bubble, and troubling demographics that will lead to a shrinking labour force, all of which could lead to a collapse of the Chinese economy.[73][74][75]

Debt struggles plague advanced countries. The crisis in Greece fuels growing fears of contagion.[76] Beyond Greece, European countries such as Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia see their credit rating downgraded.[77][78][79][80][81] In August 2011, the S&P downgrades the United States' credit rating from triple AAA to AA-plus.[82] In September 2011 Italy is downgraded by S&P from A+.[83] Japan also sees a rating downgrade due to debt burden.[84] In October 2011 European leaders devised another Greek debt agreement in which private banks that loaned Greece money agreed to voluntarily write down or revalue Greek debt by 53.5%. Overall losses for private bondholders would be above 70 percent when accounting for the new bonds' longer repayment period and lower interest rate.[85] The size of the European Financial Stability Facility was increased from €440 billion to €2 trillion.[86]

Society and trends

The 2010s are notable for being the first decade in which the population of Earth has been more urban than rural; back in 2007, the portion of the human population living in cities and urban areas reached the 50% mark.[87]

The world population is projected to peak at 9 billion by 2050, and many countries reported declining fertility rates in the 2010 census.[88] Society by the 2010s is still being accustomed to the huge changes the Internet, globalization and digital technology make in everyday life, with many young people growing up spending their entire lives exposed to microchip technology.[89] At the same time, the world is grappling with the Great Recession that began in 2007 and continues into the 2010s.

Political polarization and pension reform

In the United States and to a lesser degree elsewhere, political polarization continues and/or increases as conservatives and progressives clash over the role of government and other social, economic, and environmental issues. Polls in the US continue to show a divided electorate regarding job creation, debt reduction, and taxation.[90][91][92][93][94][95]

Currently the average age of a human being on Earth is about 28–29 years old (28.4 in 2011); hence the average birth date is around the year 1983.[96] This ranges locally from as low as the teenage years in the developing world to as high as the mid-40s in several countries including Japan. In 1950 the average global age was only about 24 years.[96] The aging of populations in the developed countries, most prominently Europe and Japan, continues as the Baby boomers generation reaches the age of retirement. This has caused a large debate over the Medicare and Social Security programs in the United States. Many popular opinions among Americans are that either the retirement age should be raised,[97][98][99][100] the Social Security and Medicare programs be replaced with another type of pension,[101][102][103] or that the Medicare and Social Security should be abolished in its entirety.[104][105][106]

Growing acceptance of the LGBT community

Acceptance of LGBT people slowly increases across the world, with significantly higher levels of support among younger generations than among older generations, though a growth in all age groups.[107][108][109] For the first time, in June of 2011, the United Nations passed a motion in support of LGBT rights across the world, 21 years after the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of diseases.[110][111] Although many nations already allowed for gays to serve openly in the military, a major milestone in LGBT history was made in September of 2011 when the United States joined that list by abolishing its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.[112][113] The issue of marriage for same-sex couples is an ongoing debate in many nations, but so far 7 jurisdictions have legalized marriage equality for their gay and lesbian citizens in this decade including New Hampshire (2010), the Federal District of Mexico (2010), Portugal (2010), Iceland (2010), Argentina (2010), New York (2011), and Denmark (2012). In most cases, votes to legalize same-sex marriage fall along a strict-party line vote with leftist parties favoring legalization and more conservative ones favoring no recognition at all. However, as the culture continues to shift more supportive, conservatives are growing more comfortable with marriage equality as was the case for New York's effort to legalize same-sex marriage and the ongoing debate in the United Kingdom, where legalization of same-sex marriage has been seen as a priority by the Conservative Party.[114][115][116][117][118] In May 2012, President Barack Obama became the first sitting United States president to support same-sex marriage.[119]

At a certain point I've just concluded that for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.

— President Barack Obama, May 9, 2012[120]

Polls have found that as of 2012, 53% of Americans support gay marriage, up dramatically from six years prior when just over one-third of respondents believed it should be legal. Less than four out of ten Americans believe that marriage for gay and lesbian couples should be illegal in 2012. [121]

Youth culture

Youth culture such as skateboarding continues to spread to countries such as Afghanistan.[122] Internet memes grew in popularity across the Internet since around late 2009, although internet memes existed as far back as the web's infancy in the 1990s. Memes such as the troll face, the illuminati conspiracies and Leroy Jenkins became popular elements of social networking and grew into 2012. Current trends set Internet memes to grow hugely and enter the mainstream of TV and general entertainment in the coming years.

Other global and societal trends

The United States is moving away from its trend of suburbanization that defined development during the first 60–65 years after World War 2 to new urbanism and urban revival is taking place as people begin to move back to the cities, which has been going on since the 1990s.[123]

Environmentalism continues to become mainstream, and with the economic crisis of the late 2000s to present, increasingly profitable as well.[124]

The world's major civilizations are now interacting more than ever in history, creating tensions but also bringing new ideas to cultures that previously did not have them. This occurs more often not only physically but in cyberspace. This is radically changing the economic and social fabric in virtually every part of the world. China, considered an emerging power in the 1990s and 2000s, has increasingly been called a superpower in the early 2010s, such as at the 2011 meeting between Hu Jintao and Barack Obama.[125]

Individuality and uniqueness continues to be increasingly valued as opposed to conformism. A well noted example of this are baby names, which have become far more individualized since the 1960s, but especially since the 1990s and the introduction of the Internet.[126]

Long distance relocation declines in the United States, reaching their lowest levels since information began being kept in 1948.[127]

In America, migration to the Sun Belt, large during the last decades of the 20th century and the 2000s decade, declines; migration in general around the US has been in decline since the beginning of the 1980s.[128]

AIDS, a pandemic responsible for killing over 30 million people since its discovery in the early 1980s, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, becomes a treatable condition; though only one case has been cured,[129] the disease is no longer a death sentence and with good treatment victims can generally expect to live normal lives and lifespans. However, as of 2011 only a bit more than 5 million of the 12 million people who need drugs for AIDS get them and hence many people still die from the disease.[129]

Science and technology

Science

NASA announced that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars on 5 August 2011
The first collisions of CERN's Large Hadron Collider took place on 31 March 2010.

Technology

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The iPad becomes the best selling tech gadget in history (to date)
  • By February 2011, the IPv4 internet addresses officially run out. An early period of transition to IPv6 continues during 2011.[134]
  • Supercomputers are projected to reach exaflop scale in 2019.[135]
  • By March 2011, more than 2 billion people used the Internet.[136]
  • One billion mobile broadband users predicted by sometime in 2011, and 4.6 billion people worldwide were subscribed to mobile phones.[137]
  • On 3 April 2010, Apple Inc. launches its first tablet computer called the iPad which offers multi-touch interaction with multimedia formats including newspapers, magazines, ebooks, textbooks, photos, movies, TV shows videos, music, word processing documents, spreadsheets, video games. The iPad soon became an immediate bestseller and only months after its release became the best selling tech gadget in history.[138] Multiple competing tablet computers are now on the market.
  • Mobile phone apps, introduced in the later 2000s, explode in popularity; In June 2011, Americans spent more time using apps than using the World Wide Web.[139]
  • On 25 May 2012, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft becomes the first private commercial spacecraft to successfully attach to the International Space Station, thus ushering in a new era for commercial spaceflights.

Additional notable world-wide events

Popular culture

Film and television

See also: 2010s in film, 2010 in television, 2011 in television, and 2012 in television

Film and television, two industries that have dominated pop culture for a large part of the last century found itself struggling to maintain its predominant influence throughout this decade.[144] The struggles plaguing the music industry in the previous decade had begun to catch up to other mediums, as well as the consequences of ever-increasing online usage by consumers. Internet piracy was a major concern for the industry as well and a reluctance to adapt to consumer demand through online venues even further harmed the industry's image.[145] In 2008, the industry launched the joint venture video site Hulu to combat numerous piracy concerns from other video-sharing sites.[146] As of 2010, Hulu was contemplating a US$2 billion IPO.[147] As of 2012, Viacom is pursuing a US$1 billion lawsuit against Youtube for copyright infringement.[148] Furthermore, governments began looking at ways to combat internet piracy. In early 2012, the United States Congress began debating the infamous SOPA and PIPA bills that were heavily lobbied by the entertainment industry and widely unpopular among the population.[149] Despite government efforts to debate the issue, internet piracy is still expected to be a major concern throughout the decade.[150][151]

Cable providers saw a decline in their membership in favor of online streaming services such as Hulu, Netflix and Amazon.com's Prime service due to cheaper cost to consumers.[152][153] These non-cable, internet-based media streaming services even began producing their own programming.[154]

TV sets, such as the SmartTV by Samsung, start to integrate the internet to traditional television, giving more choices that are more traditional and high quality than cable, along with more family friendly middle class entertainment.

3D films, although not a new technology, saw a resurgence in popularity after the long-awaited release of James Cameron's Avatar in late-2009.[155][156][157] In 2010, Avatar became the first film to gross more than US$2 billion.[158] The box office success of other 3D releases that year insured the industry that 3D movies were not a fad.[159][160] In fact, the video game and television industries began to look into utilizing the 3D trend by releasing their own 3D products and services.

Animated films in the 2010s remain predominately computer generated. Traditional 2D animation has struggled in recent years and is seen by some industry giants like Michael Eisner to be an outdated artform or casualty to the rise of CGI-based films.[161][162] Japanese anime still remain to be fairly popular 2D mediums globally and may be the exception to this trend.[163] In 2010, Toy Story 3 became the first animated film to gross more than US$1 billion worldwide.[164] Established long-running 2D animated sitcoms are still widely popular as well.[165]

The American Soap opera format slides in popularity as reality television and daytime talk shows continue to move in on their time slots.[166][167] All My Children and One Life to Live, both globally broadcast series that have been on the air for decades are cancelled.[168] Prime-time television serials and Spanish-language telenovelas remain popular globally.[169]

In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Director for the 2009 movie The Hurt Locker.[170]

The highly-controversial, globally-acclaimed 2000 Japanese film "Battle Royale" was officially released to theaters and home media in the United States after more than eleven years of quiet corporate wrangling by both American and Japanese distributors; the first planned Los Angeles public theatrical run in December 2011 was extended by six days due to popular demand.[171][172]

Academy Award Best Pictures

Theatre

Broadway begins to slowly shift away from musical adaptations of films and towards original musicals, such as 2010 Tony Winner Memphis and 2011 Tony Winner The Book of Mormon. Rights for many shows from the 2000s are released, including The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Spring Awakening, and Hairspray, were released for amateur production.

Locally, many theaters begin to perform smaller productions with less actor and set requirements as a way of coping with the Great Recession. This made shows like the aforementioned Spelling Bee into standards.

Cuisine

Breakfast habits change: among Americans, cereal, a profitable breakfast food throughout the 20th century, declines by the early 1990s and is not nearly as popular by the 2010s.[173] Fast casual restaurants such as Five Guys, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Pasha's Mediterranean (in South Florida, USA) also have seen upticks in popularity.[174][175]

Music

Main article: 2010s in music

As a decade, the 2010s continue an ongoing trend of atemporality in pop music. Whilst music in previous decades had a defined sound, the 2000s produced no epoch defining genres, and genres remain little changed from where they were in the 1990s.[176][177]

While stylistically music is essentially stuck in the same style it has been in since about 1995, the musical paradigm shifts in the previous decade regarding how people obtain and listen to music including the rise of the MP3 format,[178][179] televised national musical contests,[180] and the declining influence of the recording industry have had major effects on the state of music globally in a relatively short time.[181] According to a Nielsen and Billboard report, in 2012 digital music sales topped the physical sale of music.[182]

In terms of popular music, the heavy use of Auto-Tune has dramatically changed the landscape of the Top-40 charts. At the same time, electronic dance music and electropop have gained significant popularity; autotune became widespread during the late 2000s and early-2010s, making a sound that differentiates 2010s music from the popular music styles of the early 2000s.[183] Another noticeable trend that began late in the 2000s and is continuing into this decade is the prevalence of dance and pop music.[184][185][186] Dubstep, originating in the United Kingdom, is rising in popularity globally,[187] and is a style that mirrors the electronic-leaning musical trends elsewhere. Heavy Metal and Hard Rock still are a big part of music in the 2010s. Interstellar music was invented in November 2010.

Record of the Year Grammy Winners

  • Use Somebody - Kings of Leon (2010)
  • Need you now - Lady Antebellum (2011)
  • Rolling in the Deep - Adele (2012)

Architecture

The Burj Khalifa became the world's tallest building when completed in 2010.

Postmodernism and green designs[188][189] are common themes seen throughout the architecture of the decade. The aftermath of the energy crisis and the threat of peak oil have pushed developers to creating structures that are as sustainable as possible whether that is through the use of natural lighting, green/white roofs, better insulation, and other cost-saving means.[190] Architect Bjarke Ingels, known for designing the Danish pavilion at Expo 2010, has proposed a type of "hedonistic sustainability" to create a balance between playful art and sustainability.[191]

China and Dubai have been regarded as the "architect playgrounds" of this decade.[192][193][194][195] Many iconic structures, including the current world's tallest building Burj Khalifa and the Shanghai Tower, are placed in these regions of the world. Dubai's development has been slowed by the global recession,[196] but China continues to flourish in its development towards a modern nation.[197] In fact, China is pushing Shanghai to become a global financial center by 2015.[198][199] As China continues to develop, it will continue to struggle to provide energy for its 1 billion strong population. China's Three Gorges Dam became fully operational in 2011 and is one of the world's largest gravity dams.[200]

A supertall skyscraper race began in the late-2000s and in 2010, Dubai's Burj Khalifa became the tallest man-made structure ever built, standing at 828 m (2,717 ft). The title is not expected to last too long as other projects proposed or approved such as the Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia[201] hopes to rise even higher. One World Trade Center (541.32 m (1,776.0 ft)), an environmentally integrated structure[202] which is set to become the tallest building in the United States, is expected to open in April 2013.[203] By January 2012, it had reached more than three-quarters of its designed height.

The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest railway tunnel, is scheduled to be completed in 2017 or 2018.

Sports

  • Usain Bolt retained fame as one of the best athletes during the 2010s.
  • Spain became the first International football team to win three consecutive major tournaments in 2012.
  • IRB Sevens World Series expand from 8 to 10 legs, and rugby seven is part of the Olympic program in 2016.

Events held

Planned

Video gaming

See also: 2010s in video gaming
The Nintendo 3DS is the first gaming device released to feature 3D gaming without the need for stereoscopic glasses.

Coming into the 2010s, video games and their associated culture matures into an established element of pop culture. According to the Entertainment Software Association, the average age of a person who plays games is 30.[204]

Some of the new and innovative trends to gaming culture in this decade include cloud gaming, the rise of 3D gaming, and the ever-increasing advancements in graphic card technologies leading to more photo-realistic graphics. Video game sales declined in the early-2010s, most likely due to the effects of the Great Recession,[205] but the industry still continued to make millions of dollars in profits from wide-releases of popular franchises. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, released in late-2011, made over US$775 million in one-week which put that particular first-person shooter video game on par or even surpassing records of the film industry's opening numbers that week.[206]

The first few years of the decade was dominated primarily with seventh generation consoles. This includes Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PlayStation 3, and Nintendo's Wii. The lack of many wide release titles on the PC lead some industry critics to question whether PC gaming is dead entirely.[207] The PC, however still remains the preferred choice medium by the Sims franchise and many of Blizzard's popular titles despite they themselves expanding onto other devices.[208][209] 2012 will introduce the first console regarded to be in the eighth generation, the Wii U. Sony and Microsoft have initially stated that their PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles were to be on a ten-year lifespan which wouldn't place a release of one of their consoles until 2014 or 2016,[210][211][212] but the Wii U's announcement has prompted the other two industry giants to make swifter timetables of release. The successor to the Xbox 360 is expected to be released in 2013 and feature 3D gaming and touchscreen controllers.[213] The eighth generation consoles are expected to face stiff competition from tablet and smartphone gaming markets, as well as an increased interest in independent games promoted by popular social networking sites.[214][215]

Following in the 3D craze, Nintendo released the Nintendo 3DS in early-2011. It introduced a new interface that does not require special glasses to observe stereoscopic 3D visual during gameplay.[216] Sony also releases a handheld console, the PlayStation Vita in 2012, but does not feature 3D gaming. The OnLive console is released in 2010 becoming the first massively-produced cloud gaming-based gaming device.[217] Mobility and interaction become a common trend to see in video games. The original Wii revolutionized the industry with the introduction of the sensor bar with compatible sensitive controllers, and Sony and Microsoft reacted by releasing the PlayStation Move and Kinect respectively. This new and innovative direction expanded the video game market to those interested in physical therapy and to the elderly.[218][219][220][221]

Fashion

Main article: 2010s in fashion

Fashion so far in the 2010s has seen a continuation of the casual fashion of the previous decade, though clothes have generally become tighter-fitting, conservative, and more colorful.

People

World leaders

Sports figures

Football

Hockey

Basketball

Musicians

Actors

Others

See also

Timeline

The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events and predicted prominent events of the decade:

2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019

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