Ask HN: Did tech really revolutionize the world in the 2010s?

As the decade nears an end, and having lived in SF for most of it, I’ve started to reflect on this past decade and thinking very hard on how tech has changed the world over the last 10 years.

I will spend more time over the next few weeks and months thinking about it, but my first reaction is that the products and companies we most associate with “tech” today are still the ones that existed before 2010, like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Amazon, and Microsoft, but just at a bigger scale. And as far as “new tech companies” go, large “startups” like Uber and AirBnB were both stared before 2010 and again are really just larger versions of the same idea (e.g. no significant pivot).

Even things like cryptocurrency, namely Bitcoin, was birthed pre-2010.

It seems like a lot of the tech innovation of this decade revolve around enabling scale? And perhaps advances in Machine Learning/AI though I don’t think we’ve yet seen game changing AI quite yet.