User:Mikefetick

Naming the Next Decades

Background. To identify a repeating span of time by a name has been very useful for mankind. It helps to remind us of what major event happened during that time.

A period of one hundred years is labeled as a century and contains decades. For example, 1500's 1600's, 1700's, 1800's, 1900's, 2000's, and this century (21st) is also referred to as the Millennial century. 1999 was the end of the 'Twentieth Century' and 2000 was the beginning of the 'Twenty-First Century' and a new millennium.

A century contains 'decades' which are spans of time for a period of ten years. Traditionally, decades are labeled in the current year and then replaced in the following year(s) with a later reference. For example, the last century (20th) had the Roaring 20's, and the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's. Do you remember which decade was i.e.? Great Depression, Rebuilding, Space Race, Flower Power, Disco, Internet, etc.

Problem. The decades of 2000's and 2010's have passed. Some have named the 'Ought Decade' but it really hasn't been addressed. Here we are in the 2020 decade and we still don't have a name.

Solution. We should be more specific to name a decade in our new millennium. It's like removing the capacity limitation of naming Internet Protocol addresses by adopting the IP6V specification.

For example, this century (21st) had the 00's, 10's, 20's, and will have the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's.

This already seems to be an accepted framework, that includes both the century and the decade reference, depicted as follows:

2000's 'Twenty-Oughts' (referring to the first decade of the twenty-first century)

2010's 'Twenty-Teens' (Obviously)

2020's 'Twenty-20s'

2030's 'Twenty-30s'

2040's 'Twenty-40s'

2050's 'Twenty-50s'

2060's 'Twenty-60s'

2070's 'Twenty-70s'

2080's 'Twenty-80s'

2090's 'Twenty-90s'

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