![]() During a transition period at midcentury, the largest warships retained masts and sails while adding steampower and either paddle wheels or screw propellers. Steampower completely revised naval tactics and strategy now ships could go anywhere, any time. During the nineteenth century, the steam warship was by far the most important of the great naval revolutions, the most significant such innovation in warships since the fifteenth century. Progress in steampower development was followed closely by the various admiralties- Great Britain, France, and the United States being most active. In his classic study, Sea Power in the Machine Age, Bernard Brodie observed that navies were relatively late in utilization of the technological advances of the machine age. As REALTORS, we think we know the culture of technology when it comes to social networks, smartphones and apps, but do we really? If your branded app isn't, ( at a minimum, on your contacts and sphere of influence phones), then how do you sustain your business and expect om the closing table? Remember, you have to get their first. Like transportation, if your branded app isn’t on their phone, then how can you engage consumers the way they are engaging? It's similar to taking a Trans-Atlantic Voyage, but in your local market. Mobile real estate apps offer, three very important functions: they provide “search for data", "select a product, service or brand", and users "share their experience to their sphere of influence " through social networks, with a picture, comment, and or link, all becoming, what is so coveted among real estate agents…a "referral."įinally, in todays “agent-consumer” engagement, there’s a cadence in the process, where the clock starts “clicking” from the download of an app, to the behavior of consumer, to the search for a property to “buy or research comparative data/listings to sell”, to “select an agent or brand to represent them”, then “share their experience” with their sphere of influence, all on the same device. Because time/speed is of the essence, especially in real estate. Today, data and communication, not only has to be “immediate” but “accurate”. What was once the “experienced economy” is now the “Search, Select and Share economy.” Transportation and communication and exchanging information or data, has always been about speed.įast forward websites, smart phones, social networks, streaming, and mobile apps are the current pulse and consumer behavior, to communicate socially and in business. (Concord made an Atlantic crossing in about 4 hours). The cell phone and the Concorde kind of happened at the same time: transportation, communication, convenience and speed. With this prototype device, you got 30 minutes of talk-time and it took around 10 hours to charge. The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. Today, right now, in 2020, it still takes 4 or 5 days for mail to reach you from out of state and 2 to 3 days in state. Then came airmail and that shortened it to about a week and a half. That was 100 years ago (1920) and took about 3 to 4 weeks. Then by carriage/truck again to the local postal office, then by mail carrier, to your door or place of business. Then the letter would be delivered by carriage/truck to the postal center. It would go to a designated station or port, and then transferred to another train, or ship, until it arrived at the destination city. If a letter was sent from California to New York, it was carried by train or ship. Think about receiving a letter many years ago, especially before airplanes and airmail, if your too young (or I'm too old) then email. That’s every second, minute, hour, day, week and year and now, with an even faster acceleration entering into its third decade of social and business communication, speed is the name of the game. The mobile phone and mobile internet communications, and social networks, are connecting people and business every second of every day. ![]() But when it comes to technology, 40-years is like the first printed book to colonize Mars.
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