Technology Helped Salvage A Dismal Decade
Americans have a more negative view of the aughts -- the years from 2000-2009 -- than they do of any other decade in the last 50 years, according to a survey released this month by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Negative impressions outweigh good ones by nearly two-to-one (50% to 27%) and cut across all age groups. The negative thoughts seem to be driven mostly by the 9-11 attacks, which won a majority of votes for defining event of the decade, followed (distantly) by the election of President Barack Obama, last year's financial crisis, the election of former President George Bush, the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina. Despite the gloom, though, many people's opinions of the social changes that have occurred this last decade are positive, and most of those changes are driven by technology. So venture capitalists and entrepreneurs can take a bow. Check out PEW's list after the jump --
