Martin Cooper father of cellphone is worried about dark side of his invention it led privacy loss and social media addiction

Barcelona: Martin Cooper, the father of the cellphone, worries that his 50-year-old invention has hindered people’s ability to maintain privacy in today’s time and has given rise to social media addiction. This 94-year-old American engineer made the first call on a portable telephone in 1973, and at the time he didn’t believe that a device the size of a 2.5-pound brick would be successful. Decades later, the 11-inch long phone now in its much smaller avatar lives in the pocket of almost every person across the world, one of the most important devices of the present times, but with a lot of side effects too.

Martin Cooper told the news agency Associated Press (AP), ‘My most negative opinion is that we don’t have any privacy anymore, because everything about us is now recorded somewhere, and for someone who All information is accessible to one who has a strong desire to have it. Still, he is amazed at how far cellphone design and its capabilities have come, and believes the technology is yet to find its best use in areas such as education and health. He said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona, ​​Spain, ‘We are going to conquer the disease through cellphones and internet in medical technology.’

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Chicago native Martin Cooper graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1950 and earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering seven years later. Car phones were the trend in the 1970s. These devices would plug into the vehicle’s battery and make outgoing calls through radio channels, but the phones rarely worked. However, Martin Cooper saw the potential in this technology and got it out of the car and into the hands of the public. He created the original wireless cellular device—the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X—which he first used to make a call on April 3, 1973.

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This one call sparked the cellphone revolution, but remembering that day, Cooper admitted, ‘We had no idea then that it would be remembered as a historic moment in the future.’ He spent the next decade working to bring the commercial version of the device to market and helped launch the wireless communications industry. Along with this, there was a period of revolutionary change in the way of telecommunication, shopping and knowing-learning around the world. The first cellphone that Martin Cooper made, weighing 2.5 pounds with a long antenna, looked like a brick, which was a marvel for its time. But looking at today’s devices, Cooper admits that as an engineer, he never imagined that cellphones would be like this in the future.

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