Martin Cooper, who invented the cellphone in 1973, says technological advances made since then have their dark side, but he's ultimately optimistic.
BARCELONA, Spain — Holding the bulky brick cellphone he’s credited with inventing 50 years ago, Martin Cooper thinks about the future.
Little did he know when he made the first call on a New York City street from a thick gray prototype that our world — and our information — would come to be encapsulated on a sleek glass sheath where we search, connect, like and buy. Besides worrying about the erosion of privacy, Cooper also acknowledged the negative side effects that come with smartphones and social media, such as internet addiction and making it easy for children to access harmful content.
Cooper used the Dyna-TAC phone to famously call his rival at Bell Labs, owned by AT&T. It was, literally, the world’s first brick phone, weighing 2.5 pounds and measuring 11 inches. Cooper spent the best part of the next decade working to bring a commercial version of the device to market. While blazing a trail for the wireless communications industry, he hoped that cellphone technology was just getting started.
Smartphone use by children is another area that needs limits, Cooper said. One idea is to have “various internets curated for different audiences.”
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