Since the beginning of time, man has done a few things consistently, and one of them is move. Prehistoric man moved from cave to cave, and they used crude tools to do it. “Me not like smell of cave. Me must move to new cave that smell better. Me use animals to help with move.” This might be what a caveman would say if he could talk.
What was the first piece of technology to be used with moving?
Can you guess what it was? It was the wheel! The invention of the wheel made it easy for people to move large objects from one location to another. “Me have wheel. Me move to cave far away, and never have to smell old cave again.” By the time we invented the wheel, we had also learned to speak.
Moving has grown with technology!
Let’s fast forward to today. Look at all of the wonderful technology that you use everyday in your life. It has helped to enhance your life, and it has made things much easier, but how has technology helped with the tough task of moving? You still need the muscle to move, and that has nothing to do with technology, but once your things are loaded into a moving truck, technology starts to play its role in moving.
All of your things that are in that truck are now being tracked in real time by satellites in the sky. Moving trucks use GPS to keep track of their locations. This helps the moving company keep track of its fleet of moving trucks in one easy to see central location. At any given time, the dispatch office can pull up a computer screen that will show them where the truck is that is hauling your things. This is technology at its best. In a nutshell, technology makes the entire moving process much simpler. From the packaging supplies, to the hand carts, to the moving trucks. It all makes the job of moving your things from one location to the next so much easier.
Put the power of moving technology in your hands.
These days, almost everyone carries a computer. It is called a smart phone, and smart phones use apps. These are just little programs that run on your smart phone. The term app is short for application. There are literally hundreds of apps that are available for your smart phone that can help you make the process of moving simple, and most of them are free. If they do have a charge associated with them, it is often very little.
You can find apps that will help you plan your move, make a moving checklist, figure out how much space you have to move, setup a moving calendar and more.
What will technology and moving have for us in the not so distant future? Only time will tell, but odds are it will make moving even easier.