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Last Big Thing
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Last Big Thing
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en 2001 April Popular Science 258 4 What Is IT? John R. Quain 74 Now, nobody knows what IT is exactly, but as dot-com companies, purveyors of the Last Big Thing, bite the dust, we're ready to grasp at anything — even if we don't know what it is.
en September 15, 2003 CIO 16 23 A Bargain So Far Eric Knorr 118 You might call Web services the Last Big Thing. The surprise is that today, in the midst of an IT downturn that has become a way of life, Web services really is changing everything.
en 2007 2033: Future of Misbehavior 12 0811859401 The world of nightlife is arguably one of the most forward-thinking businesses there is; impresarios and denizens alike are moving constantly, like sharks, on the unending quest for the Next Big Thing, and the Next Next Big Thing, and the So Much The Next Big Thing That Only Fifteen People In Glasgow Know About It Thing, leaving the rest of us behind at the Last Big Thing, as redundant and forgotten as rejected bits of forlorn knitwear on the last day of a Barneys warehouse sale.