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I would probably say the 90s for the West and the 00s for the rest of the world. Overall the biggest change is definitely electrification which started in the late 19th century but it's been an ongoing process that still isn't complete and took quite a few decades even in western countries.
While electrification does bring major changes you also need the appliances and items to use it and so that change was slow(i.e. Most people don't have fridges till the 50ies or microwaves till the 80ies!). All decades see major changes and right now I would say this decade is creating major changes and this decade is bringing changes that if you asked me in 1988 that I would not predict coming.
Newspapers, Mail delivery, Physical data storage like books, music, movies and TV are all feeling its impact. Land line phones the mainstay since the 19th century again feeling its impact. Smart phones with GPS are hurting the sale of items invented just in the 90ies digital cameras, GPS devices, and MP3 players. Tablets and Smart phones cutting into PC sales.
I'd say the past 20 years have seen very rapid technological changes and before that it was relatively slow. Much faster cultural changes before the mid-1990s, though. Pop culture has hardly changed at all since I was 5 years old (23 now).
It's difficult to tell about the whole life. For example, computers. In 1990s the abilities of them were increasing quickly. Speed of calculation doubled every other year. OS Windows appeared in the middle of the decade. At the end of 1990s we have got advanced 3d games.
And I can't say that in 2000s and 2010s computers' development is as quick as it was 15-20 years ago.
I would probably say the 90s for the West and the 00s for the rest of the world. Overall the biggest change is definitely electrification which started in the late 19th century but it's been an ongoing process that still isn't complete and took quite a few decades even in western countries.
I'd have to say about 1910-1920. Electrification was underway, automobile production had gotten underway in significant volume, airplanes were becoming more common, industrialization was increasing. It would have been a pretty amazing time to be alive. Can you imagine the changes people living in these times saw? From the horse and buggy era and candles to putting a man on the moon in a lifetime? Things have been pretty stagnant since the mid-late 70s, with minor tweaks and improvements to technology developed during previous times.
I agree. In some ways 1990 technology is closer to the technology of the 50s than to the technology of the early 2000s.
1990 is older than the Big Bang.
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