It's 2020 and you're in the future — Wait But Why
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Some people are young, just not you.
It’s finally the 2020s. After 20 years of not being able to refer to the decade we’re in, we’re all finally free—in the clear for the next 80 years until 2100, at which point I assume AGI will have figured out what to call the two decades between 2100 and 2120. We now live in the 20s! It’s exciting. “The twenties” is super legit-sounding, and it’s so old school. The 40s are old. The 30s even more so. But nothing is older school than the Roaring 20s. We’re now in charge of making this a cool decade so when people 100 years from now are thinking about how incredibly old-timey the 2020s were,…
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