2010s

Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

Decades: 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s - 2010s - 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s 2060s

Years: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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Table of contents

1 The Decade as a Whole 2 Events and Trends 3 Technology

The Decade as a Whole

This decade will be called "teens" or "twenty-teens".

Events and Trends

The baby boomer generation which is designated as "officially" including babies born after the end of World War II in 1945 reaches the age of 65 beginning with this decade. 65 is the standard (though not universally accepted) age of retirement in the United States. A rapid expansion of the number of retired persons due to the aging Baby Boomers is expected to have a drastic effect on the economy of the United States and Europe, especially Social Security and Medicare. This expected surge in the distribution of retirement benefits has been dubbed the pension bomb.

• 2016 Summer Olympics Scheduled

Technology

Teleportation is allegedly going to be perfected by this decade, according to Australian scientists who are studying it now.

Around this time, the Hubbert peak of global oil production dictates widespread disruptions to conventional energy supplies of oil and natural gas. Academic and business research into hydrocarbon deposits has concluded that the continued usage of this form of energy source will inevitably create widespread reductions in its supply during the 2010s.