Holding the bulky brick cellphone he’s credited with inventing 50 years ago, Martin Cooper thinks about the future.
But Cooper, describing himself as a dreamer and an optimist, said he's hopeful that advances in cellphone technology have the potential to revolutionize areas like education and health care.
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. “The only thing that I was worried about: ‘Is this thing going to work?' And it did," he said Monday.
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