Episode 140: Decade in Review

Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: Decade in Review
Episode 140
The big tech trends of the 2010s

Hosts
Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/

Longer Topics
Ned’s Big Trends

• Public cloud accelerates everything
• Smartphone Ubiquity
  •  iPhone 3G and the App Store in 2008. Android was launched with the T-Mobile G1 in the same year
  • Global smartphone sales in 2009 was a paltry 173 million units

Chris’ Big Trends

• 4G
  • So here’s a quick recap, courtesy of Wikipedia
  • In India in 2016, many households had a maximum of 2Mbps
• Addiction to Distraction: Runaway Screen Time
  • As of 2018, the average American checks their phone 52 times a day
  • Infinite scrolling is designed specifically to encourage users to continue traversing content with as little interruption as possible
  • Facebook is the most famous example, with their like button addition in March 2010
  • There is definitely a tech backlash in general going on
  • And we have been finding more and more things that are bad about excessive screen time
  •  But the smartphone revolution came with its own addictive dark side

Kim’s Big Trends

• Health/Fitness/Shame Tracker
  • https://www.statista.com/statistics/610447/wearable-device-revenue-worldwide/
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2019/09/29/fitbit-10-years-of-tracking-what-next/3778685002/
• Giggidy Giggidy Goo!  (Gig Economy)
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfrazer1/2019/02/15/how-the-gig-economy-is-reshaping-careers-for-the-next-generation/#1ac75b7649ad

Music Credits

Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk

Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B