of cell phones, etiquette and manners.

do you know him?

can you recognise the device he’s holding in this picture?

He made that.

Yes, indeed.

He’s Martin Cooper. The guy who invented the 1st cell phone(Motorola) and he was the one who made the 1st cell phone call. The world’s first!

The truth is I did not have the slightest idea of who this guy was until I read this commentary published on CNN.com.

I found this commentary pretty darn interesting.

Here’s a couple of excerpts from the article.

"You should not be a slave to your telephone," he said. "The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around. If the technology is not making your life better -- if it is robbing you of experiences in the real world that you would otherwise be enjoying -- then you are working for it, when it should be working for you."
 
"Whatever happened to courtesy?" Cooper said. "What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can't wait five minutes before staring at your phone?
 
What truly upsets him is the sight of people looking at their cell phones as they are driving. "Anyone who dials a phone while driving is flirting with death," he said. "And anyone who texts while driving is insane."
 
"When you are doing one thing -- talking on your phone, texting, whatever -- you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away."
 
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