The cell phone, as well as the first call made by it, completed 50 years on the last day 3. When it was created, by the American engineer Martin Cooper, nobody imagined that the device would be responsible for a revolution in communication and in people’s lives. Today, 5.22 billion people in the world use cell phones. In Brazil, there are 250 million numbers. The first device was developed by Motorola, in 1973.A Starting on May 23, the story of this invention will be told at the Museum of Tomorrow, in Praça Mauá, port region of Rio de Janeiro, in the exhibition Hi Tech Celular 50, which already is being assembled and will mix technology and art. “It is an exhibition that talks about the past and the future, because there is no way to understand the future without remembering the past”, Miguel Colker, curator and creator of the exhibition, told Agência Brasil, adding: “it has a historical path but, in the Final, [a exposição] questions what are the possibilities of cell phone impact on health, education, culture, democracy”. The narrative takes the audience through six sections: Black Hole, Mobility and Freedom, Popularization and Individualization, Multiplicity, Excess and Labyrinth of Possibilities. In each one, the public will be able to immerse themselves in experiences that marked the generations of cell phones and their respective impacts, with a final invitation to reflect on what is yet to come. Visitors will also have the opportunity to see an original prototype of the DynaTAC 8000x, a relic provided by Dyna LLC, the inventor and “father” of the cell phone, Martin Cooper. Brazil The cell phone arrived in Brazil at the end of the 1980s. The first cell phone system implemented in the country was in 1989, in Rio de Janeiro. A curiosity about the name cellular is that the mobile telephony system was originally called a cell system, because it consisted of distributing antennas in small geographic cells spread throughout the city. As it was not possible to have an antenna that covered the entire city, antennas were scattered throughout the city. Thus, if a person who was in Santa Teresa, in the center of Rio, for example, moved to Botafogo, it would be possible to continue talking on the cell phone during the journey. Excesses The exhibition also draws attention to the inappropriate and harmful use of cell phones. “The cell phone has become a tool for good and for evil. It is the result of a human need. It is something, today, that we need to look at and reflect on its use. There is little debate about the use of cell phones”, ponders Colker. In his evaluation, the debate that takes place today is shallow. “Today, in Brazil, you have more cell phones than Brazilians. You have more cell phone lines than Brazilians. And truth”. According to a report by ‘Mobility Report’, in 2028 there will be more cell phones than human beings on the planet. “It is a tool that, in Brazil, is used, on average, five hours a day, and should be part of the debates on important areas of development, such as health, education”.
Agência Brasil
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