US EditionHe Pioneered the Cellphone. It Changed How People Around the World Talk to Each Other — and Don’t
- Fifty-Two years ago, Martin Cooper marked a milestone by making the first mobile phone call while standing on a street in Manhattan, connecting with the leader of a competing telecommunications project.
- Cooper rejected AT&T's focus on car phones, envisioning a personal device that made users reachable everywhere, sparking a 1970s industry battle.
- The original four-pound DynaTAC 8000X evolved into billions of lightweight smartphones, with about 4.6 billion people globally having mobile internet today.
- Cooper notes that the number of mobile phones worldwide has surpassed the global population and foresees future technology continuously tracking health to help detect illnesses before they develop.
- Despite growing connectivity, challenges remain, such as limited internet access where only 37% of Africans have access and 37% want to live elsewhere, alongside societal concerns over phone use regulation.
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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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