Cooper, who today is considered the father of the mobile or cell phone, thought that a system that forced users to stay in their car to make calls wasn’t a real mobile alternative to the telephone. “People are naturally inherently mobile and yet for a hundred years we had been told that the only way to communicate was over a pair of wires, wires that kind of leashed you to your desk, that tied you to your home when you wanted the freedom to be everywhere,” Cooper stated. Who hasn’t heard someone say that they prefer to receive a text message over a phone call?