Martin Cooper

The way people transfer money, save money in Africa is by using cell phones.

And the UN did a study that showed that 1.2 billion people in Africa moved out of severe poverty, mostly because of their cell phone.

In Mexico,

Poor villages in Mexico that never had a doctor can now get health care by a doctor in Mexico City by virtue of a cell phone and gadgets like a device, a $5 device that clips on a cell phone that will

allow a doctor in Mexico City to look at their eyes.

They can actually do an ultrasound of a pregnant woman using a cell phone.

So we're just barely starting to understand the power of the cell phone.

One way or another, we are just at the beginning of what the power of the cell phone will do for human beings.

It is ludicrous to call this thing a phone, isn't it?

And within the next 10 years, I think you're going to see a much better coverage.

They are going to advance the ability to process audio so that a cell phone call will have the equivalent quality of people talking face to face.

Well, I'm a futurist.

I think that 30 or 40 years from now, when you do a call,

that the person you're talking to will be right in front of you virtually as real as if they were physically there.

There's no reason why we can't do that.

There's enough capacity in the radio spectrum.

We know that the amount of processing power is doubling every 18 months, Moore's law.

The amount of

radio channels that we have is doubling every 30 months.

They call that Cooper's Law.