Meet Martin Cooper, the Father of the Cell Phone

Martin Cooper is the inventor of the personal, portable phone.

This short video profile by Motherboard begins by recounting the technological changes and competitive pressures that drove Motorola, the company Cooper was working for, to build the first cellular phone in 1973.

The soft-spoken, 86-year-old engineer thinks mobile technology is still in its infancy and the form factor of cellphones today is suboptimal. Cooper finds sorting through a multitude of apps to get things done counterproductive and envisions a day when artificial intelligence will be all that we need.