Man credited with inventing the cellphone 50 years ago marvels at how far cellphone capabilities have advanced, while expressing concern over the technology's impacts on privacy to internet addiction to the spread of harmful content, especially among kids.
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.
To needle the competition, Cooper used the Dyna-TAC prototype — which weighed 2.5 pounds and was 11 inches long — to call to his rival at Bell Labs, owned by AT&T.The call helped kick-start the cellphone revolution, but looking back on that day Cooper acknowledges, "we had no way of knowing this was the historic moment."
He spent the better part of the next decade working to bring a commercial version of the device to market, helping to launch the wireless communications industry and, with it, a global revolution in how we communicate, shop and learn about the world. 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.
While he dreams about what the future might look like, Cooper is attuned to the industry's current challenges, particularly around privacy.
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