How the Sci-Fi "Communicator" Became the Cellphone, with Dr. Marty Cooper
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The Star Trek communicator; the Dick Tracy radio watch; the Teenage Mutant Ninja 'Turtle-Com.' For decades, science fiction and fantasy forecasted futuristic two-way radios that seemed fantastical at the time – but today, 7 billion people carry them in their everyday lives. Dr. Marty Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, joins Michael Fisher (aka Captain2Phones) to explain how the modern cellular phone went from pie-in-the-sky pipe dream to ubiquitous commodity.
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