”Sorry, privacy is a thing of the past,” Martin Cooper,...
"Sorry, privacy is a thing of the past,” Martin Cooper, the cellphone’s inventor, said on a 60 Minutes interview broadcast Sunday. A report showed Cooper strolling among the crowds at the recent CTIA show in Las Vegas and on the…
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New York street corner where he made his first mobile call on a phone that weighed 2 1/2 pounds. “I think the whole concept of privacy requires a new mindset among people,” he said. “There are people that object to somebody monitoring their buying habits. I'm delighted if people know what I buy, because they're going to tailor their marketing to me.” Cooper said the industry is in its infancy and he expects cellphones to continue evolving. “I think we are just basically scratching the surface,” he said. “The health care industry is going to be revolutionized, because you will have sensors in various points of your body measuring different things and a computer somewhere, or maybe a doctor, will be examining you all the time.”