The other day I woke up from a nap and the whole house was quite so I got up and started looking around for my family. No one was in the house so like I always do I went to grab my phone, but it was not in my pocket. I am sure when I say I had a mini heart attack everyone can relate if they have ever miss placed their phone. So after freaked out and frantically ran around the house looking for my phone for five minutes I found it in the sheets of my bed, by then I forgot why I needed my phone in the first place and I started playing a game I downloaded. A little while later I got hungry and remembered why I needed my phone and I called my mom. when she answered the phone the first word out of my mouth were "where you guys at?" come to find out they were at my grandma's house. So I drove over to spend some family time and during our family time we started talking about movies and we could not remember what this movie was called. Right away my cousin asks her phone and that began the discussion of old times with pay phones and land lines, just the technological invention of the phones.

            When I got home that night I wanted to get some real facts about the first cell phone, come to find out phones other then land lines have been around from the 40's. Although it was no iPhone actually it was not much of a portable device at all. The "cell phones" of the 40's was a big brief case looking device that for the most part was a car phone. The "cell phone" also was only ran by one company at the time and that company was and is AT&T, until one man had a bigger dream. This man's name is Martin Cooper, at the time this man was an ordinary employee at Motorola. In 1972 Cooper presented his dream of a mobile phone and months later on April 3, 1973, that he was able to see his dream come to pass when he got to call the rival company, AT&T, on the world's first MOBILE PHONE. What set this man apart and changed history forever was simply his dream and in a YouTube video I watched he says that it is  human nature and history that tells us that humans want to be mobile and he calls the home phone and AT&T car phone a leash. Later in that same video he states he is impressed with how much the cell phone has improved but is not happy yet saying "We still got a ways to go."

 

            Right after that video another video showed up of a question and answer interview with Martin Cooper so I decided to watch. He said one thing and it will stick with me forever, it was along the lines of that the preps for technology is for it to serve us and for it to do it so simply that we can't even tell. I do think we have that with things like head sets and other hands free devices but he then goes on to say that we have let the cell phone control us and that it has become more of a fashion statement and he is totally against that idea. To be totally honest I had to pause the video and it honestly upset me cause I started to think how much I rely on my phone and I could not help but laugh how I went crazy when I could not find my phone after my nap.

            I went to sleep that night with a lot on my mind, when I woke up I started talking to my dad about what I had learned and he was impressed and told me that he remembers as a kid leaving to go play with his friends and that he just knew he had to be home before it was dark and how now and days parents can call you and find out what is going on but how back then there was no way for parents to know what was going on with the kids till they got home. He then told me if I knew what phrase was never said on the phone till cell phones, I was lost until he told me the phrase was "where are you?" The rest of the day two things keep going around in my head what my dad said about the kids and what Martin Cooper said about cell phones controlling us. we were not home so I looked up some stuff about teens and cell phones and what I read disturbed me because how true the statistics are. The article says that 81% of youth under 25 sleep with their phone next to them on the bed and that 74% of them reach for their phones immediately after waking up. Another crazy statistic is that over 90% of teens and 20 year old often use their phones in the bathroom and it had to be pretty accurate cause I was in the bathroom when I read that. Yet the most disturbing and scary one was that Half (52%) of cell-owning teens ages 16-17 say they have talked on a cell phone while driving and there are much more proof that lives today young or old revolves around smart phones and that’s not what the invention was intended for.