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Man credited with inventing cellphone sees dark side, but also hope in new tech

loss of privacy to the risk of internet addiction to the rapid spread of harmful content, especially among kids."My most negative opinion is we don’t have any privacy anymore because everything about us is now recorded someplace and accessible to somebody who has enough intense desire to get it," said Cooper, who spoke with The Associated Press at the telecom industry’s biggest trade show in Barcelona, where he was receiving a lifetime award.Yet the 94-year-old self-described dreamer also marvels at how far cellphone design and capabilities have advanced, and he believes the technology’s best days may still be ahead of it in areas such as education and health care.LEFT: Dr. Martin Cooper with the first portable handset.

He is considered the inventor of the first cell phone and was the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. (Photo by Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images), RIGHT: The in "Between the cellphone and medical technology and the Internet, we are going to conquer disease," he said Monday at MWC, or Mobile World Congress.Cooper, whose invention was inspired by Dick Tracy's radio wristwatch, said he also envisions a future in which cellphones are charged by human bodies.It’s a long way from where he started.Cooper made the first public call from a handheld portable telephone on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, using a prototype that his team at Motorola had started designing only five months earlier.RELATED: Apple iPhone's Clean Energy Charging causes stir on social media over battery charging times, 'shaming'To needle the competition, Cooper used the Dyna-TAC prototype — which weighed 2.5 pounds and was 11 inches long — to call to his rival at Bell Labs, owned by AT&T."The only

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