The house answers back; the decade is still being written.
The kitchen counter hosts the last great gadget craze - the air fryer - while the vacuum drives itself and the house answers questions. School and work walk into the living room in 2020 and never fully leave. The gadget dissolves into software, and the software starts to talk.
The AI assistant - the first "gadget" with no body at all, and the oldest question in the museum: when the machine listens, who is it working for?
A pandemic empties the schoolyard and the office in the same month; the price of eggs becomes front-page news; the classroom argues about the machine writing this label.
The decade of a nurse on a double, a remote worker in pajama pants, and a kid whose first word to a machine was its name. Check back; the room is still open.