The past ten years or so have really seen remarkable advancements in technology when you think about it. Just off the top of my head, I came up with the following list of products and services which not only did not exist a decade ago, but are for the most part indispensible today.
2001 Wikipedia
2003 Skype
2003 IEEE 802.11g, a.k.a. Wi-Fi
2004 iMac G5 with 40 to 500GB. 500GB??? Who would ever need that much storage?
2004 Toyota Prius introduced to US market.
2005 Youtube
2005 Google Maps
2005 Sunnyvale, CA, became first city in the U.S. providing citywide Wi-Fi for free.
2006 Facebook available to the general public
2006 Twitter
2006 Nintendo Wii
2007 iPhone
2007 Google Street View
2010 Instagram
2010 iPad
2011 Siri
2011 Line application
2015 iWatch
Makes you wonder what the next ten years will hold. Jetpacks anyone?
