‘Take your eyes off your phones’, says inventor 50 years on FMTNews FMTLifestyle
SAN FRANCISCO: The problem with mobile phones is that people look at them too much. At least, that’s according to the man who invented them 50 years ago.
At the time he was working for Motorola, leading a team of designers and engineers who were engaged in a sprint to come up with the first proper mobile technology and avoid being squeezed out of an up-and-coming market. So, with the entire resources of Motorola at his disposal, he pulled together experts on semiconductors, transistors, filters and antennae, who worked around the clock for three months.
“So here I am standing on Sixth Avenue [in New York] and it occurred to me I had to call my counterpart at The Bell System… Dr Joel Engel! “It turns out that what real-estate people do is they show people houses, or they answer the phone for new clients. Now they could do both at the same time; it doubled their productivity.”
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