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"I predict the 2020s will be strikingly similar to the 2010s."

https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=4346

I guess it's hard to predict, especially about the future.

With such a vague statement, you could easily swing it either way. To me, it looks basically identical. What's different for you?

The obvious one to me was how COVID came in 2020 and put the world into quarantine making and actual change in how people work remotely. The technology was there in the 2010s, but something external changed our usage. Of course, it looks like it is trending backwards again with companies forcing workers back to the office, at least partially.

Politics across the globe seems more insane than ever. Maybe I wasn't paying attention 10 years ago.

Maybe you were not paying attention but it doesn't matter: the world did change a lot with Covid and especially with the war in Ukraine, at least in Europe. It's definitely different than up to early 2020.

Or maybe I'm not paying enough attention to right now. Good points though, thanks.

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