BARCELONA: The man credited with inventing the cell phone 50 years ago had only one concern then about the brick-sized device with a long antenna: Would it work?

These days, Martin Cooper frets like everybody else about his invention's impacts on society — from the loss of privacy to the risk of internet addiction to the rapid spread of harmful content, especially among kids.

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