If you’ve got 13 minutes to kill, then tune into this 60 minutes interview that profiles Marty Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, and how he lives his life, how the idea of the mobile phone came into being, how Motorola and AT&T used to fight in the 70s, where mobile phones are today, and where he thinks mobile phones are going.
For a guy in his 80s, he is extremely articulate, and when you see him working out and skiing you just think in the back of your mind that you’ll be that spry one day, and not shitting in a diaper while struggling with dementia.
Marty isn’t a stranger to us at IntoMobile, we’ve shared a 33 minute video before of him speaking on C-Span about mobile phone networks, spectrum allocation, and some of the more technical aspects of how those little toys in our pockets work. That video too, is a highly recommended watch and is embedded below.