2010
2010s Era
Act I
The World Stage
2010
6.9B
people on Earth when this year began
Today
8.2B
+1.3B more people since
🇺🇸
US President
Barack Obama
🇬🇧
UK Prime Minister
David Cameron
🇺🇳
UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
Defining Moments
Haiti earthquake
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Arab Spring begins
WikiLeaks releases diplomatic cables
Instagram launches
Act II
Culture & Entertainment
#1 Movie
Toy Story 3
Oscar Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
- 🎥 Toy Story 3
- 🎥 Alice in Wonderland
- 🎥 Iron Man 2
Top TV Shows
- 📺 American Idol
- 📺 Dancing with the Stars
- 📺 NCIS
- 📺 The Walking Dead (debut)
Notable Books
- 📚 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Act III
Technology & Science
iPad launched
Instagram created
4G LTE networks begin
Kindle e-readers go mainstream
Space
SpaceX Falcon 9 first flight • Hayabusa returns asteroid samples
Nobel Peace Prize
Liu Xiaobo
Nobel Physics
Andre Geim & Konstantin Novoselov (graphene)
Act IV
Cost of Living
Gas / Gallon
$2.79
Today: $3.50
Milk / Gallon
$3.44
Today: $4.15
Movie Ticket
$7.89
Today: $11.75
Average Home
$272,900
Today: $420,000
New Car
$29,217
Today: $49,500
Postage Stamp
$0.44
Today: $0.73
Average Salary
$46,000 / year (min wage: $7.25/hr)
Act V
Sports Champions
World Series
San Francisco Giants
NBA Finals
Los Angeles Lakers
Super Bowl
New Orleans Saints (SB XLIV)
FIFA World Cup
Spain (2010 WC)
Act VI
Our Planet
CO₂ Levels
0
parts per million
Today: 422 ppm
Temperature Anomaly
+0.72°C
vs. pre-industrial average
Today: +1.45°C
Life Expectancy
78.7 years
Internet
2B users, Facebook has 500M users, Twitter rising