The father of the cellphone

There wouldn't be Uber or Lyft or Google Maps or FaceTime or Instagram or Tinder or Snapchat or TikTok or iPhones or Android phones if someone hadn't invented the cellphone. Fortunately, somebody did.

It was Marty Cooper. "I know a lot about the future, 'cause I spend all my time there," he laughed, "when I should be thinking about practical things of today." Cooper's memoir, "Cutting the Cord" (Rosetta Books), tells the story. He is a Chicago native, Navy submarine officer, and, eventually, an executive at Motorola, maker of police and military radios – and in the early 1970s the two-way radio known as the car phone.