Concurrently, this has caused an explosion in the number of software companies being created (an element inherent to Marc Andreessen's argument that software is eating the world) and, as a result, new ecosystems are popping up all over the globe to help grow these companies, help jumpstart those that follow in their footsteps, as well as light a fire under regional economic growth.
European crowned heads have followed in their footsteps, as have countless singers and musicians.
Kameyama wanted to follow in their footsteps, and as soon as he had enough money to purchase a camera he hit the streets, documenting protests and student movements in his native Japan.
The history of Native-American students at Trinity and Duke stretches back longer than one might imagine, and there is still much work to be done to understand the experiences of these early students, as well as those who followed in their footsteps.
In the long term, the chances are that Williams will be following in their footsteps as a British Olympian.
Self-styled "neurophilosophers" such as Patricia Churchland follow in their footsteps, proposing that mental language is mere "folk psychology", destined to be reduced and replaced by a biologically precise language of neural connections and brain activity.
By the time we reached Benny, the other boys were gone, lost in the dark; all that was left was the echo of their footsteps as they ran off into the night, and then there was not even that — no sound at all except the soft, steady ticking of the motor in Riccio's car.
As a young reporter, I devoured the work of famous foreign correspondents and yearned to follow in their footsteps as they chronicled human travails and endeavors: the flight into exile, the search for work, the upheaval of war, the pilgrimage of faith.
Nicole Kidman also starred with Witherspoon in HBO and Sky Atlantic's Big Little Lies, and other well-known actors are following in their footsteps as bigger budgets and a broader choice of channels has opened up what the agent Sophie Laurimore calls a "gold rush" for talent.
They, and others who followed in their footsteps, such as Walter Mosley and George Pelecanos, successfully conveyed the notion that out there on the streets was a world that Miss Marple and Hill Street Blues were never going to set right, a world that Amis and McEwan, or McInerney and Ellis, barely seemed to realise existed.
