Client and Server - Waves of the Past

Pardon me for the esoteric title. Just a small note from me to indicate what kind of movements we have had in the past, when it comes to client and server, or frontend and backend, or browser and server or what have you.

Client	Server	Time	comments
-	Mainframes	1950s	single-user
-	Mainframes	1960s	users provide punchcards to system admins (batch-processing)
Dum terminals	Mainframes	1970s	time-sharing, server does all the work1
Personal Computers	-	1980s	PCs in network sharing files/printers and do all the work
Personal Computers	Server	1990s	PC is fat client and can do all the work, the start of client-server
Thin client	Server	1993	Thin client does a little bit of work, but a lot is done on the server side
Internet Browser	Server	1994	Server does all the work, pushes HTML pages to client
PDA	Server	2000	Basically the same concept as Thinclient, but discontinued.
Single Page Application in your Internet Browser	Server	2005	Browser does all the work, but queries servers.
Tablets and Mobile phones	Many Servers	2010	Basically the same concept as Thinclient, but distributed computing starts.

So, my question is always, what next? Will we see things of the Past come round again, where people come to the conclusion that Fat Clients are awesome?

The answer is probably that there will be cases where either fat or thin clients make sense. Especially in the plethora of new devices available nowadays.

References

[1] Wikipedia - Centralized computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralized_computing