Revisiting the biggest tech advances of the last decade

In 2010, when the decade began, the iPhone 4 was months away from being a reality, Android was still shaping up its 2.0 version, Facebook and Twitter was years away from being weaponised for politics and big data was yet to make its mark.

As the decade slips away, we take a look beyond devices at some of the major technological advances that reshaped life in the second decade of the 21st century.

Social Media

At the cusp of the last decade, Facebook and Twitter were slowly emerging as a place that goes far beyond just a place where you put up random quotes or shared pictures of birthdays and other functions. Photo sharing site Instagram was not yet there, nor was Snapchat.