The early 2010 were good on a macroscale, they had a lot of optimism and hope for change. And for me, they were the best years of my life so far.
Culturally the 2010s as a decade started only in 2014 and yeah, since then, on a macro scale, overall and grossly simplified, they really were like gosh awfull.
There are pearls though, like the internet and computers becoming mainstream, media access being easy and cheap, cartoons, videogames, LGBT rights, internet memes, more consciousness about political and social topics etc. But in most perspectives, they just sucked.
For the future, expect nothing to change in at least 2020, because the begin of a new calendaric decade tends to still belong to the previous cultural decade. Just like the 2010s zeitgeist didn't start in earnest before 2014, 9/11 kicked off the 2000s, the Fall of the Eastern Bloc the 90s, JFK's assasination the 60s, the attack on Pearl Harbor the 40s etc. But, after that (2020, not WW2), I expect things to change very fast - but maybe that's just wishfull thinking.