He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other — and don’t
Martin Cooper changed the world when he pioneered the portable phone. The Motorola company’s four-pound box has evolved into a global army of powerful smartphones weighing ounces. Some 4.6 billion people — nearly sixty percent of the world — have mobile internet. The phone’s inventor says the revolution’s just begun. Cooper observes that the tiny computers that we carry by the billions are massive, interlinked networks of processors performing trillions of calculations per second. That’s the computing power that artificial intelligence needs. Cooper sees the cellphone’s imminent transition to a thinking computer fueled by human calories to avoid dependence on batteries. These new parts would run constant tests and feed our doctors real-time results, building longevity.
