Inventions that Impacted Sales in 10 Bullets
- 1440 – Johannes Gutenberg invents the Printing Press
- 1837 – Samuel Morse develops Morse Code paving the way for introduction of electrical telegraph
- 1843 – Facsimile or Fax patented by Scottish inventor Alexander Bain
- 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell revolutionises voice communication with the invention of telephone
- 1971 – Ray Tomlinson creates system for sending messages through computers via ARPANET
- 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola does a demo of the first handheld cell phone
- 1981 – Osborne, precursor to current day laptops comes to the market
- 1989 – World wide web arrives
- 1996 – Google introduces a search engine
- 2018 – OpenAI announces release of GPT 1 which was followed by other launches in 2022
We could also have a completely different list depending on what one regards as impactful in the history of sales and selling
“Information technology will not be considered a tool or even a way to leverage human knowledge. It will become an expected utility, much like electricity, noticeable only in the rare event it is withdrawn”
— Charles B Wang
