[ti:Inventor of First Mobile Phone Looks back, Thinks about Future]
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[00:00.04]The man who made the first call from a wireless phone
[00:03.52]is now 94 years old.
[00:05.68]The year was 1973. Martin Cooper operated a large,
[00:11.72]heavy new communication device on a street in New York City.
[00:17.20]The device was not physically connected to phone lines.
[00:21.04]But, Cooper was able to make use of it
[00:23.76]--- he called a technology business competitor.
[00:27.92]Fifty years later, the inventor says
[00:31.60]he hopes wireless phones can make life better
[00:35.20]but he also expresses some worries.
[00:39.12]"My most negative opinion
[00:41.32]is that we don't have any privacy anymore
[00:44.44]because everything about us
[00:46.48]is now recorded someplace," Cooper said.
[00:49.64]And, he says he is concerned
[00:53.40]about how easily young people can link to
[00:57.00]harmful online material on their cell phones.
[01:01.16]Cooper spoke with the Associated Press
[01:03.92]from Barcelona, Spain,
[01:06.16]where he attended the Mobile World Congress,
[01:09.80]the biggest telecom industry trade show.
[01:13.32]Cooper received an award there for his lifetime of work.
[01:19.68]Cooper says he is an optimist.
[01:22.64]He believes the technology's best days
[01:26.24]may still be ahead in areas such as education and health care.
[01:31.28]"Between the cellphone and medical technology and the internet,
[01:35.36]we are going to conquer disease," he said Monday, at the MWC.
[01:41.28]Cooper was working for Motorola
[01:43.44]when he used the Dyna-Tac phone to make a call in April 1973.
[01:50.20]Things have changed greatly since then.
[01:53.56]But, he said, "we had no way of knowing this was the historic moment."
[02:00.56]Cooper said there are still ways for the mobile phone to change.
[02:06.32]The first one he used weighed over 1 kilogram.
[02:09.80]Today, they are small.
[02:12.40]But he thinks one day, they will be more like
[02:15.32]a part of our body than something we hold.
[02:18.36]He said perhaps the human body can even power the phones.
[02:24.80]"The human body is the charging station, right," he asked.
[02:29.60]The body makes energy from food, he argues,
[02:32.92]so it could possibly also power a phone.
[02:37.88]Instead of holding the phone in the hand, for example,
[02:41.88]the device could be placed under the skin.
[02:46.28]Cooper said he also hopes there can be more protection
[02:50.24]for internet users concerned about privacy and for children.
[02:57.56]Speaking about privacy concerns, he said:
[03:01.16]"it's going to get resolved, but not easily."
[03:05.92]He also said there should be a special internet for children
[03:10.24]so they do not run into material made for adults.
[03:15.72]Cooper said the idea for the mobile phone
[03:18.32]came from a communication device
[03:20.12]used by the comic book character Dick Tracy.
[03:23.64]The imaginary detective had a wristwatch
[03:27.24]from which he could make phone calls.
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