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How the Cellphone was Born: Three Months of Craziness
Unsung Science
English - December 10, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsScience Society & Culture cbs david pogue technology science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: How Apple and Microsoft Built the Seeing-Eye Phone
In the early 1970s, “mobile phones” were car phones: Permanently installed monstrosities that filled up your trunk with boxes and, in a given city, could handle only 20 calls at a time. Nobody imagined that there’d be a market for handheld, pocketable cellphones; the big phone companies thought the idea was idiotic. But Marty Cooper, now 92, saw a different future for cellular technology—and he had 90 days to make it work. A story of corporate rivalry, Presidential interference…and unquenchable optimism.
Guests: Marty Cooper, father of the cellphone. Arlene Cooper, technology entrepreneur.
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