The inventor of the first mobile phone criticizes people's addiction to mobile phones

American engineer Martin Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone, admitted that people may have become “addicted” to using the device he invented 50 years ago.

Despite the addiction that Cooper criticized, he told Agence France-Presse that the potential of phones is unlimited, and can one day help eliminate diseases.

The 94-year-old inventor added, "I am shocked to see people crossing the street and looking at their mobile phones. They have lost their minds," and added jokingly, "When cars run over some people, they will understand."

Cooper wears an "Apple" watch connected to the Internet on his wrist, and carries the latest "iPhone" devices, as he buys new phone models and delves into testing their capabilities, but he admits that the millions of available applications make one feel dizzy, as he described it.

However, he predicted that the reality would change and that the state of addiction would decrease with time, saying, “Each generation is smarter than the one before it, and people will learn to use smartphones more efficiently,” stressing that “human beings always make progress in the end, sooner or later.”

Martin Cooper noted that “today the mobile phone has become an extension of the person, and it can carry out much more tasks,” and he expects this reality to be “just the beginning,” as the capabilities of the mobile phone are just beginning to be known.

Cooper believes that in the future, the mobile phone will revolutionize the fields of education and health.

"In the same way that his watch tracks his pulse when he swims, phones will one day be connected to physical sensors that will detect diseases before they happen," he said.

Cooper was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mobile World Congress in early March, celebrating the 50th anniversary of making the first phone call using the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, when he made a short call with his main competitor, Joel. S. Engel from AT&T.