Unthinkable -2010-2010 Link

Unthinkable was not alone. 2010 also saw the release of:

Finally, 2010 was the year the unthinkable entered climate science. For decades, scientists had spoken of tipping points in abstract future tense. In 2010, multiple studies confirmed that the Arctic summer sea ice had entered a death spiral—not in 2050, but now. The unthinkable was that we had already crossed a point of no return without a global debate, without a treaty, without most people noticing. The year saw the publication of the “4°C World” scenario by the World Bank (then considered alarmist). The unthinkable thought was that adaptation, not mitigation, would be the dominant human project for the 21st century. Unthinkable -2010-2010

But by December 2010, 15 million iPads had been sold. The unthinkable had become inevitable. More importantly, the iPad changed human posture and attention. It introduced the lean-back, touch-first, swipe-to-exit paradigm that would define the next decade. In the span of that one year, the idea of what a “computer” was split in two. The old model (PC as tool) and the new model (tablet as environment) coexisted, but only after the barrier of the unthinkable was shattered. The dash “-2010-2010” signifies the compression of that rupture: an entire conceptual shift that took place not over a decade, but over eleven months. Unthinkable was not alone

The film Unthinkable ends with an ambiguous final shot. The bombs may still detonate. H may have been wrong. Brody may have been naive. The credits roll without resolution. Similarly, the year 2010-2010 offers no closure. The Gulf of Mexico still has dead zones. Haiti still has tent cities. The cables leaked by WikiLeaks are now historical footnotes, replaced by new leaks, new lies. In 2010, multiple studies confirmed that the Arctic