Mobile

The term ‘mobile’ derives from the ancient Latin word ‘movere’ and means ‘to be in motion’. Mobility has always been the key ability to ensure a consistent growth of every society.

Heading for progress

Beginning with the invention of the wheel and the domestication of animals used for transportation, engineers pushed the limits of what seemed to be possible further and further away. Followed by the discovery of the entire world through improving sailing ships, the evolution of mobility kept marching on irresistibly. The invention of the steam engine followed and very shortly after that the ‘telephone’ again made the world a bit smaller. The word ‘telephone’ means ‘distant sound’ and made the ability of being actually mobile a bit less important. But still one technical revolution was directly followed by the next one. The breakthrough in aviation brought the ultimate mobility to mankind. Now there was no place on earth that could not be reached and explored. Countries that once were days or weeks away could be travelled to in only a couple of hours and goods, although it has always been preferred to transport them by sea for financial reasons, could be delivered only days after the order had been sent. The world became smaller and smaller which did not result in only positive consequences.

Small world – no limits

Some states could not bear the sudden closeness to potential enemies which always had been ‘further away’ and connived at the fact that the world grew more and more together. In recent years, mobility has become the key ability in almost every part of the everyday life. The inventions of the mobile phone and the mobile internet have become the ones to have the biggest effect on everyday life since the nineteenth century. Decisions, that used to require several weeks of laborious research, can now be made after only few minutes of using worldwide connected search engines. Products, which could have been bought only in a certain country, are just ‘one click away’. After every alleged law of physics has been broken, it is only a matter of time when the next one will be born down.