The man credited with inventing the cellphone 50 years ago frets like everybody else about his invention's impacts on society -- from the loss of privacy to the risk of internet addiction to the rapid spread of harmful content, especially among kids.
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"My most negative opinion is we don't have any privacy anymore because everything about us is now recorded someplace and accessible to somebody who has enough intense desire to get it," said Cooper, who spoke with The Associated Press at the telecom industry's biggest trade show in Barcelona, where he was receiving a lifetime award.
Cooper, whose invention was inspired by Dick Tracy's radio wristwatch, said he also envisions a future in which cellphones are charged by human bodies.Cooper made the first public call from a handheld portable telephone on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, using a prototype that his team at Motorola had started designing only five months earlier.
Still, Cooper said he's "not crazy" about the shape of modern smartphones, blocks of plastic, metal and glass. He thinks phones will evolve so that they will be "distributed on your body," perhaps as sensors "measuring your health at all times.""You ingest food, you create energy. Why not have this receiver for your ear embedded under your skin, powered by your body?" he imagined.
"It's going to get resolved, but not easily," Cooper said. "There are people now that can justify measuring where you are, where you're making your phone calls, who you're calling, what you access on the Internet."
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