Cooper uses a top-end iPhone, gets the latest model every year and “gives it a thorough road test”, a report by news agency AFP said. He uses it “mostly to speak to people”, check email, and photos, watch YouTube and control his hearing aid. The inventor also wears an Apple Watch.
However, Cooper confessed that it all feels a bit much with several million apps available. “I will never, ever understand how to use the cell phone the way my grandchildren and great-grandchildren do,” he was quoted as saying.
‘Problem with mobile phones is..’
Cooper also talked about the problems of new-age mobile phones. He said that people look at them too much as people right now “can be a little obsessed.”
“I am devastated when I see somebody crossing the street and looking at their cell phone. They are out of their minds,” the 94-year-old told the news agency.
“But after a few people get run over by cars, they’ll figure it out,” he added jokingly.
Mobile phones improving people’s lives: Cooper
He also talked about the potential of smartphones saying that the “neat little device we all have in our pockets” has the potential to even help conquer disease one day..
“The cell phone has now become an extension of the person, it can do so many more things,” he was quoted as saying.
“And in that regard, we are just at the very beginning. We’re just starting to understand what that could do. In the future, we can expect the cell phone to revolutionise education, it will revolutionise healthcare. I know that sounds like an exaggeration, but I want you to know within a generation or two, we are going to conquer disease.”
He said that “just like his watch monitors his heart rate while he swims, and his phone monitors his hearing aids, phones will one day be connected to an array of bodily sensors that will catch illness before it develops.”
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