On the transportation side, of course, there had been enormous changes in railroad technology, streetcars, and in ship technology.
Ships become bigger, faster.
On the other hand, there had been revolutions in telegraph, cable, telephone, but these revolutions had not converged yet. And what was so powerful and compelling about wireless aboard ships was that it brought those two revolutions together so that you had speedier, bigger ships that now also were no longer incommunicado once they were out at sea. With wireless people felt that there was something instantaneous about life that there hadn't quite been before. That they could send a message and just a few minutes later it would arrive some place else, and there really was a sense that they could be simultaneously in two places at once. That they could send a message that really vaulted them over space and time in a way that was very new and quite magical.