Increasing Mobility
Description:
The dictionary has a explanation of the word Mobile
- Mobile
- Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place.
- Tending to travel and relocate frequently.
Mobility means ' The quality or state of being mobile '.
The world's increasing mobility take its literal meaning: People are more and more capable of and ready for moving from one place to another, both temperarily and permantantly.
Enablers:
- Virtual Integration
- Media Globalization
- The Globalization of Culture (or Cultural Globalization)
- The advances of information and communication technology, especially wireless Technolgy, which free people from restraints of their location, you can communicate anywhere anyway.
- The advances in ground and air transportation. It allows people to travel around the world with safty, comfort and speed.
- Increasing international Cooperation, which requires people to travel around the world for cooperated projects/researches.
Inhibitors:
- Cultural barriers
- Language barriers
- Country barriers
Paradigms:
The emerging Air companys' all sorts of marketing programs aimed 'Frequent Travelers' is a very good example. Nowadays, there are people who travel so much that merely gaining milage services cannot satisfy them, and they bring so much profit for the air companys that they try all means to retain this group of travelers their roylty. Some even come up with special class which provide personal services above First Class!
Experts:
Timing:
- On March 10, 1876, in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
- By the end of 1896,Henry Ford had sold his first car.
- Commercial air transportation began in 1914 when the St. Petersburg-Tampa Air Boat Line briefly carried the first scheduled paying passengers across Tampa Bay, Florida. Since that time, the airliner has revolutionized the way people travel, greatly reducing travel time between countries and bringing the world closer together.
- The boeing 747, the first of the wide-bodied commercial jets, had its inaugural flight in 1970. Four jet engines propel the plane, which reaches cruising speeds of 885 km/hr (550 mph), and later became the premier transcontinental jet in the world in the late 1970s and seated as many as 490 passengers.
- 1987 GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard for Europe created based on a hybrid of FDMA (analogue) and TDMA (digital) technologies.
- Mobile phones have been the most successful electronic product of
all time with over 264 million handsets shipped in 1999 a number that’s predicted to increase threefold by 2004
- On December 2004, new world car speed record is top speed at 395+ km/h.