7 most disruptive Tech moment in the last decade
This decade arguably heralded a whole lot of disruption in the tech space like never before; from mobile to public transportation, we witnessed massive disruption in these spaces...
From today till the end of the year we look back at 7 most disruptive Tech moment in the last decade from 2009 - 2019
Rise of the planet of WhatsApp
WhatsApp's rise to messaging dominance began in a decade where we witnessed the death Blackberry Messenger BBM.
The company's meteoric rise this decade (it currently boast of over 1.5 billion active users) is more due to its easy integration across all types of phone than its mid decade acquisition by social media Juggernaut, Facebook.
Ubercalypse
This decade will be greatly remembered for d explosion of ride hailing services championed by American company, Uber INC. Founded in 2009 by former CEO Travis Kolanick & Garrett Camp, the company has powered its way through 63 countries (it opened in Nigeria in 2014)
Fantastic Cryptos - The Crimes of Bitcoin
The 2010s will not be a complete decade without d mention of Bitcoin (d cryptocurrency that could not be named at one time due to the scare it gave financial institutions around the world. Though, its hype has fallen in d past few years
Bitcoin has made a lot of its investors multimillionaires (the cost of Bitcoin was once worth nearly $20,000 in 2017 from 10cents upon its inception in 2009).
Cryptos are the next frontier of digital payments and Bitcoin is sure leading the way.
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V for VAR
Football has always resisted the 'help' of tech to act as the third eye during football games. But history was made in the 2018 World Cup hosted by Russia as the tournament saw it's first use of video technology through VAR (Video Assistant Referee).
Subsequently, top football leagues around the world including the English Premier league have adopted the usage of video technology.
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The number of disruptive moments in the mobile space this decade are enough for another century. Here are few of the moments;
The transformation of the Smartphone from just a leisurely use to a photographer's delight (the zooming capabilities of the Huawei P30 Pro camera)
Alterations to the selfie camera (pop-up camera)
The death and resurrection of former Juggernaut, Nokia Mobile.
TECNO's takeover of the African mobile market
The displacement of larger computing gadgets by Smartphones with higher computing computing capabilities...
...(later releases of Samsung Galaxy Smartphones and iPhones)
The next decade promises to see more disruptions in the mobile space
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Transformers: Age of Self Driving
We are ebbing slowly to the world of self driving and electric cars with this decade serving as the key to its ignition.
We've moved from testing phase at the turn of the decade to actual deployment of self driving cars for commercial use by...
various auto companies in the last couple of years.
Over 1 million electric vehicles were sold in 2017. Some major cities across d world have proposed banning d future sale of passenger vehicles powered by fossil fuels which has made most automakers ramp up the production of EVs
...(Tesla produced over 260,000 units of EVs in the first 3 quarters of 2019).
The future has arrived for self driving and Electric Vehicles
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Final Destination
The 2010s also witnessed the death (both metaphorically and literally) of popular tech founders. Apple founder, Steve Jobs was stung by death's venom in 2011, Uber's Travis Kalanick was kicked out from his company 4 enabling a toxic culture and more recently...
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey announcing they are stepping down.
Even Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg faced (no pun intended) a lot of backlash over privacy issues.
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Other notable disruptive moments include 'Big Bang Fintech', 'VR has Fallen", "Artificial Intelligence", etc...
Add your most disruptive tech moment of the decade below 👇👇👇
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