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He Pioneered the Cellphone. It Changed How People Around the World Talk to Each Other — and Don’t
- Martin Cooper led the invention of the first mobile cellphone and declared victory with a historic call on April 4, 1973, in Manhattan.
- This breakthrough followed Motorola's 1970s corporate battle to create a portable phone, as Cooper bet people wanted a device that made them reachable everywhere.
- Since then, mobile phones have evolved from the four-pound DynaTAC 8000X to billions of smartphones, with about 4.6 billion people now having mobile internet globally.
- Cooper highlights that the number of mobile phones currently exceeds the global population and envisions a future where these devices continuously monitor health and help predict illnesses before they occur.
- This ongoing revolution transforms communication and medicine but brings challenges such as social changes, disrupted childhoods, and uneven connectivity, as many still rely on basic mobile calls.
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The Man Who Gave the World Smartphones Sees a New Revolution Ahead
Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola’s research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was locked in a 1970s corporate battle to invent the portable phone. Cooper rejected AT&T’s wager on the car phone, betting that America wanted to feel like Dick Tracy, armed with “a device that was an extension of you, that made…
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He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other — and don’t
Martin Cooper changed the world when he pioneered the portable phone. The Motorola company’s four-pound box has evolved into a global army of powerful smartphones weighing ounces.
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