Customer Experience Milestones

When did common tools first appear on the scene?

Peppers and Rogers recently shared 'milestones in modern customer experience'

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It starts with the telephone and winds up with the digital wallet.  The inventions can be broadly classed into a several of groups.

• Those that focus on a company's reach, or market  - catalogs, contact centers and green stamps. 
• Efficiency tools that found new uses - QR codes, Point of Sale, online check in and IVR.
• Disruptive technology that created altogether new markets - personal computer, smartphone and iPad.
• New concepts that changed how we communicate - wiki, Facebook, and to some degree Amazon.

No one has the crystal ball as to what will come next but some thoughts.

These are either tools or destinations -- what happens if we make information part of the experience itself?

These are content or information repositories - what happens if could infer intent from context?

Interesting times....