GEO 103 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Smart Highway, Optical Fiber, Distance Decay
11 Oct 2018
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: air transportation provides time and cost-space convergence: transportation infrastructure. Infrastructures allow countries to specialize in production and trade: also form integrated spatial divisions of labor, fast and efficient transportation systems allow the development of , natural resources, regional specialization of production. Third-party logistics pick & pack, warehouse, and distribute. Fedex, ups : comparison between modes of transportation, telecommunications, historical perspectives, telegraph invented by sam morse in 1844, telephone began wider adoption phase in 1920s. One-half of world"s people have never made a phone call. Landlines are rapidly either being supplemented or replaced by wireless technologies: advances in microelectronics particularly important in telco industry! World"s most rapidly expanding and most dynamic economic sector. Leads to digital capitalism: four waves of technology, first wave: early to mid-1800s. Invention of steam engine and the rise of steam-powered engines and locomotives: second wave: 1870s. Establishment of big institutions e. g. ge and bayer.
