The Inventor of the Cell Phone Says the Future Is Still Calling

In 1973, there was only one man who believed everyone on Earth would want and need a cell phone. That man was a Motorola engineer named Martin Cooper. So if Cooper says today that the wireless revolution is still just in its opening stages, and that mobile technology promises to help end poverty and disease and bring education and employment to everyone, we should probably listen.

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