It's now the year 2030. What do you miss from this century's first decade?

Not needing to know Chinese.

I knew the lingo. Every good cop did.

He say you brade runner!

Real honey.

In 2030, soylent green is PayPal.

已經太晚了!

My mother’s a what?

I will not buy this laundromat: it is scratched.

If Bablefish is correct you’re telling us it’s already too late to not speak Chinese, correct?

That’s right . . .

東 (East)…

Ever since the Great Virtualization, everyone’s had their own coördinate system…

Betty White.

获得良好的汉堡!

Who couldnt help but miss in a way a decade so bad and odd that we could never figure out exactly what to call it?

It was like some calenderific twighlight zone. Kinda like those really bad demons whose name must not be spoken.

“Being able to get good hamburger”? I’m seriously extrapolating from what Babelfish gave me (“Obtains good Hamburg”)

Well they’ve started making new episodes of the Golden Girls with computer simulations of the original actresses. I think Blanche is less funny now that they actually show her doing all the stuff that could only be implied in the olden days. Then there’s always those senior citizen sex toys Virtual Betty White’s always hawking onling.

Onling Hawking, Steven Hawking and Kathy Lee’s love child.

On the downside, there’s Richard Nixon in a Bottle.

I much prefer Google Translate. It reads “获得良好的汉堡!” as 'Get a good hamburger!" which makes a lot more sense. But yeah the Gospel according to Joss Whedon says that English will still be spoken, with Chinese mainly used for cursing.