2007 may go down in history as the beginning of the decline of market creativity and technological progress

Key events of the timeline so far

• 2007 Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone.
• 2007 Intel releases duo core processors marking a new direction of CPU development.
• 2007 ML researchers begin using GPUs for machine learning creating demand for massive data sets.
• 2008 Global financial crisis.
• 2008 Quantitative easing begins in America and Europe.
• 2009 Facebook gains mass popularity.
• 2009 FarmVille released demonstrating the power of simple engagement building gimmicks.
• 2009 Barack Obama becomes the first president to use social media in their presidential campaign beginning the politicization of social media platforms.
• 2010 Various social media platforms gain mass popularity.
• 2011 Agile software development principles gain popularity.
• 2012 Github begins to gain popularity as a source code host for various projects.
• 2013 Various platforms experiment with real name policies after promising studies surface in Korea.
• 2013 Social media content makers discover click bait and bring light to the publics lack agency for content discrimination.
• 2014 Signs of extreme political polarization begin to manifest.
• 2014 Various “privacy” oriented IT services gain popularity, demonstrating growing public sentiment.
• 2015 Discord released as centralized replacement for self hosted VOIP software.
• 2016 Cambridge Analytica brags about predictive power of social media data sets for civil elections.
• 2016 Chinese social media TikTok begins marketing in the U.S.
• 2017 Social media platforms begin to add disclaimers to user content and begin to encourage using fact check websites.
• 2018 Political agitation for repeal of section 230 begins.
• 2019 “Big tech” antitrust investigations begin.
• 2019 Corona virus spreads.
• 2020 America forces the sale of Tiktok to American hands.