In the early 1970s, Motorola was the company that produced the first wirelessly portable and actively communicating phone. On April 3, 1973, the hard work of one of his engineers, Martin Cooper, yielded results. Thus, the first portable phone call in history was made.
As a result of Cooper’s work, there was still 10 years before the first mobile phone to be developed and sold commercially.
Cooper spent many years in Motorola’s portable phones unit:
During this time, he made an invention that would be appreciated more in the 21st century, and his efforts yielded results.
In 1983, the first cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was launched, weighing just 1.1 kilograms. So you needed a bag instead of a pocket to carry:
With its length of 23 centimeters, it was adopted as a practical model to be used mostly in cars at that time. The price was determined as 3 thousand 995 dollars, which is quite high even compared to the US economy of that period. With today’s economy, this price goes over 10 thousand dollars.
Over time, mobile phones have evolved to deserve the mobile phone name:
Most of us may remember this period in a dim way, but cell phones have been the key to freedom of communication for many years. Over time, antennas disappeared, and we started to meet with larger and more colorful screens and versions with cameras.
Then smartphones entered our lives, keys became a thing of the past, we continue our lives today with a constant internet connection and millions of applications:
In fact, we often feel like we cannot continue without our phones. When we say higher resolution screens, better cameras, better processors, we spend every moment communicating with these devices, and we no longer discuss freedom but bondage in communication. However, most of us are happy with this situation most of the time, we accept it.
But what will phones look like in the future? For this, we turn our attention to the inventor of the portable telephone, Martin Cooper:
Cooper, who gave an interview to the NPR team via Zoom; He states that developments in the field of artificial intelligence will also determine the way we communicate. However, for this, he makes a prediction about how the devices will change, which we often encounter in science fiction movies.
“The mobile phone will become a part of you, you will not need to charge it, because your body is a perfect charger.”
Although this approach put forward by Cooper is a popular one, it actually draws a point of view that supports the view of many science fiction writers, especially Ray Kurzweil, or the “machinized human being” in their works. In other words, it will be possible to communicate without the need for a portable device, which causes us to be constantly dependent on electricity in the future.
When we asked the artificial intelligence Midjourney about the device Cooper was talking about, he gave us the following images:
Of course she can’t think with Midjourney Cooper’s mind, but her statements have helped to portray a futuristic future. However, even this is a sufficient example of Cooper’s emphasis on the communication revolution with artificial intelligence. If there was no artificial intelligence like Midjourney, we would have kept his explanations limited to words only, or we would have spent 7-8 hours at the most and presented a Photoshop work.
In the future, it is certain that people will become machines and turn into “devices” that are constantly connected to the Internet, just like cars, coffee machines or air conditioners. As they say above, it may be possible one day, but with the support of more meaningful and permanent artificial intelligence technologies. Finally, smart watches and phones are about to run out even today…
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