I just had a shower thought that a lot of "screw fundamentals, let's just write code" tech was turbo charged after the 2008 crisis:<p>* Advances in hardware have driven renewed interest in deep learning. In *2009*, Nvidia was involved in what was called the "big bang" of deep learning, "as deep-learning neural networks were trained with Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs)".<p>* Johan Oskarsson, then a developer at Last.fm, reintroduced the term NoSQL in early *2009* when he organized an event to discuss "open-source distributed, non-relational databases".<p>* The [Bitcoin] currency began use in *2009*, when its implementation was released as open-source software.<p>* VR 2012?<p>Obviously all of these ideas existed before at various stages of development, but it makes one wonder where all of them would have been if the printer was started.
Parks and Recreation, The Vampire Diaries and Modern Family all started in 2009. I blame it on Obama because he was President at the time.<p>It makes one wonder where all of them would have been if John McCain had won the election.