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> 'Next big things' are never the next big thing Counterpoints: web, mobile, cloud

• Bucephalus355 8y ago
  Countercounterpoint: cloning, the semantic web, and fog computing
  • larkeith 8y ago
    That's not really a counterargument when the original claim was "never" and parent provided examples of times it did occur.
• madeofpalk 8y ago
  Arguably, these things already had significant traction before they became 'big' properly. iPhone had I think quite a bit of a slow crawl into shaping the mobile landscape, and then there were all the precursor smartphones before that. AWS existed before THE CLOUD being being screamed by gurus, and really, 'The Cloud' has never really amounted to much more than the continuation of AWS EC2. They were never the next big thing - one night we woke up and they were already the current big thing. Definitely the smart people could sense that it was happening, but there weren't medium articles about it :)