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Cutting the Cord: The Cell Phone Has Transformed Humanity

By Martin Cooper
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Unabridged — 8 hours, 47 minutes
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By Martin Cooper
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Unabridged — 8 hours, 47 minutes
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One of Time Magazine's Top 100 Inventors in History shares an insider's story of the cellphone, how it changed the world-and a view of where it's headed.

While at Motorola in the 1970s, wireless communications pioneer Martin Cooper invented the first handheld mobile phone. But the cellphone as we know it today almost didn't happen. Now, in Cutting the Cord, Cooper takes listeners inside the stunning breakthroughs, devastating failures, and political battles in the quest to revolutionize-and ...