Surely I'm not the only one that thinks very little has changed in 10 years? I hadn't built a PC (nor used windows) between 2005 and 2016. After a few hours of

Surely I'm not the only one that thinks very little has changed in 10 years? I hadn't built a PC (nor used windows) between 2005 and 2016. After a few hours of catching up on the newest names (ie, what's the cheapo intel line called? What DDR version do I get? What is the SATA equivalent now?), everything became super familiar. Putting everything together was much easier (mouse cursors in BIOS?!) and looked a bit different, but amusingly familiar. 10 years ago I got a new Android from Google. Apple released a new iPhone with a larger screen. I had an app on whatever Google Play was called back then and this app still works on my phone. I read news online, I coded in Java, Javascript and Python on my MBP. I read Paul Graham essays about startups and posted comments on Hacker News. The police had descended on my city (Toronto G20 in 2010), putting up massive barriers, kettling protesters, making massive arrests and brutalizing people. I was checking Twitter to see what was happening. I booked flights on aggregators, booked hostel stays on websites and planned my trips through Google Maps. Sure, many particulars have changed (AirBnB vs hostelworld, more things on phone vs laptop), but I honestly struggle to see much technological change in my life. Getting a Tesla, which was completely unattainable in 2010, seems like the technological highlight of the past decade. Ironically, it seems our political situation has changed drastically over the last 10 years while technology has been slowly spreading but remaining fairly stable.