TECHNOLOGY
Trend setters
Trendy technology of the past decade
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | 8:10 AM ET
By Christine Peloquin, CBC News
Special report
Analysis
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Pop culture
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Entertainment
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Arts
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- The biggest publishing phenomena of the last 10 years
- Theatre, dance and classical music from the decade
- Style: Designers adapt to harder times
Photo galleries
The past decade was a rough one for Luddites and technophobes who, along with the rest of society, had to ride a massive wave of new gadgets and technological evolutions.
Technology got faster, smarter and more affordable, and became more attractive to consumers.
Over a handful of years, new gadgets and ways of doing things turned music and photograph, for example, on their heads. Televisions got thinner and a lot wider, and the broadcast quality of the picture increased dramatically. Portable digital storage units costing a few dollars made it possible to carry the equivalent of a small library worth of information on a key ring, and paper started to become passé as books themselves went electronic.
Here are some of the most notable trend-setting technologies of the first decade of the new millennium:
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Bob McDonald's Blog
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