My intention had been to post this three days ago, but I’ve been away from wireless electronic media.26 December 2011 was the eighty-third birthday of Martin Cooper.
Hurrah! Martin who?
Well, he led the R&D team at Motorola in the late 1960s and early 1970s that developed the mobile phone. The inspiration for the idea, Cooper has said, came from watching Captain Kirk communicate on Star Trek. “Beam me up, Scotty.”
Not so well-known, nor so well-off, I guess, as Steve Jobs.
But what a world-changing achievement!
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