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>> stahl: more than ever, people are worried about how all the chemicals we're exposed to are affecting our health. among them, a family of chemicals known as phthalates, which are used in everyday plastics-- not plastic bottles of water or soda, but soft and flexible things like shower curtains. they're also in shampoos and carpeting. phthalates are so ubiquitous, we all have traces in our bodies. recently, the environmental protection agency-- e.p.a.-- put phthalates on a list of chemicals that "may present a risk" to the environment or human health. that's because they disrupt hormone activity, and some preliminary studies show that they may be causing a slow and steady demasculinizing of men. but if phthalates were on trial, a jury might find the evidence against them conflicting and inconclusive. and yet, last year, congress took action, doing what europe

had already done-- it banned certain phthalates in children's toys. congress came under pressure to act because of a study by dr. shanna swan, an epidemiologist at the university of rochester medical school. dr. swan compared the levels of phthalates in a group of pregnant women with the health of the baby boys they gave birth to. did you find that the higher the level of phthalates in the mother's urine during pregnancy, the greater the problems in the young boys? >> dr. shanna swan: yes. >> stahl: what did you find in the babies? >> swan: we found that the baby boys were, in several subtle ways, less completely masculine. >> stahl: dr. howard snyder, a pediatric urologist at children's hospital in philadelphia, says swan's findings line up with what he's seeing in newborn baby boys-- an alarming increase in deformed sex organs. >> dr. howard snyder: lie him down and let me just examine him.

>> stahl: dr. snyder operated on one-year-old griffin to correct something called hypospadias, a birth defect that causes problems in urination. but he's good now, right? >> snyder: he's a healthy little guy who's, i think, going to get through the rest of life aiming without any difficulty at all. >> that's great. >> stahl: we hear that there are more and more and more cases of hypospadias. are you seeing a lot? >> snyder: 30, 40 years ago, the best data we had then was that hypospadias occurred in about one in every 300 live male births. it's up to now about one in 100. so, there's been a threefold increase. >> stahl: there's also been a twofold increase in another abnormality-- undescended testicles. snyder says something seems to be interfering in the womb with the production of testosterone, causing the male organs to form improperly. and he suspects it may be phthalates. you're moving in on these chemicals. you don't think whatever we're seeing is smoking or diet or

something else. >> snyder: i think it's the chemical exposure that are most telling. >> stahl: he points to studies beyond shanna swan's that seem to link phthalates to low sperm counts and low testosterone levels in adult males. >> snyder: there's just too much incremental data that has built up to be ignored. i think it's a real phenomenon. i really, honestly do. >> stahl: look around dr. snyder's hospital, and you see how phthalates can make their way into our bodies. they're in the i.v. bags and the tubing, for instance. when premature babies, hooked up like this, were studied, researchers found that their phthalate levels soared. who would've thought chemicals embedded in plastic leach out? well, they do, in small amounts. but studies are beginning to suggest that even small amounts can have an effect. if it is shown definitively that phthalates are dangerous, it won't be easy to get rid of them.

to show us just how pervasive phthalates are in our lives, dr. swan took us through a suburban house, sniffing, squirting and squeezing our way around, looking for flexible plastic, things that typically contain phthalates, like vinyl raincoats. >> swan: "soft and flexible." >> stahl: the bathroom shower curtain and... >> swan: duckies are squishy. >> stahl: ...the rubber duckies. >> swan: the car. >> stahl: turns out, they're also in things that aren't so pliable. >> swan: dashboard, steering wheel, gear shift. >> stahl: and things that you can't even see. >> swan: and then, that new car smell. >> stahl: phthalates make fragrances linger longer, whether in cars... what about this? ...or in air fresheners. what have you found in the bathroom that's suspicious to you? phthalates get inside us in a variety of ways-- for instance, from products we put on our skin. they help lotions spread and women's make-up retain its

color. >> swan: here's powder. >> stahl: swan says cosmetics alone could explain why women have higher levels of phthalates than men. what about lipstick? >> swan: yes. >> stahl: what about hair spray? >> swan: yes, definitely. nail polish. nail polish remover. >> stahl: if you want to know if something you're using has phthalates, it's hard to find out-- there's no requirement they be listed on labels. there are so many products with phthalates in the average home, dr. swan says they leak out in measurable amounts. >> swan: we've measured indoor air, and it does contain phthalates, as does the dust in your vacuum cleaner bag. >> stahl: and we're breathing it? >> swan: yes. >> stahl: let's open the fridge and see what they've got in here. we also eat phthalates, which have been found in meat. in fact, food could be our biggest source of them. they're in milk, possibly from the plastic tubing at dairy farms, and according to government regulators, they're in tap water, tainted by industrial waste. but hold on.

before you start throwing out everything in your house, listen to cal dooley, president of the american chemistry council, an industry lobbying group. let me just put it to you flat out. are phthalates safe? >> cal dooley: we believe they are absolutely safe. and if you look at every regulatory agency that evaluated the safety of phthalates, they have all determined that they are, in fact, safe for their intended use, the way they're being used in consumer products today. >> stahl: but then came the headlines that read like a parent's worst nightmare-- "chemicals feminizing males" and "more birth defects seen in boys." congress reacted, passing that law on phthalates in toys. rick woldenberg is feeling the impact. he runs a toy manufacturing company called learning resources, outside chicago. >> rick woldenberg: we threw away perfectly good merchandise. >> stahl: he's had to throw away 3,000 toys, and he's remade the rubber duckies and plastic ice cream without the offending phthalates.

but what about this child's telescope? this isn't soft. >> woldenberg: no, it doesn't have phthalates in it. or, if it does, it would be on a small part on the inside. no one's going to eat the telescope. >> stahl: and yet, under the law, he's obliged to spend tens of thousands of dollars to test every single product in his inventory for the phthalates. testing the telescope alone will cost him $8,600. so, even if it's not pliable, even if you just know intuitively that phthalates are not in this thing, you still have to have it tested? >> woldenberg: not only that, we have to test even the components that are inside the toy, even the stuff that no human will ever see. >> stahl: woldenberg says the law is good intentions run amok. and he points out that congress overruled the findings of the c.p.s.c.-- the consumer product safety commission-- and the food and drug administration, which say the levels we're exposed to every day are safe.

the c.p.s.c., which studied phthalates in toys twice, even had volunteers chew on them to see if phthalates oozed out. so why all the alarm bells? well, it all started with experiments on rats. >> dr. richard sharpe: oh, yeah. >> stahl: dr. richard sharpe in edinburgh, scotland, one of the leading phthalate researchers in the world, exposed pregnant rats like these to phthalates, and produced a string of abnormalities in their male offspring. >> sharpe: we see undescended testes. we see this penis abnormality, hypospadias. we see smaller testes in adulthood, which means lower sperm counts. >> stahl: so by giving pregnant rats phthalates, you're inducing some of the same problems that human males are having and that you're seeing. >> sharpe: yes. >> stahl: there have been hundreds of studies on rats, with similar findings. >> sharpe: we come to the marmosets here. >> stahl: but when dr. sharpe tried the same experiment on animals much closer to humans than rats-- monkeys-- he got an

entirely different response. he tested phthalates on pregnant marmoset monkeys like these. and their offspring? completely normal. >> stahl: none of those same effects that you're seeing with humans, or that you saw with the rats? >> sharpe: none at all. >> stahl: if someone were to tell me there was a rat study that showed one thing, and monkey study that showed another thing, as a human, i would think that i'm closer to the monkey. i would lean toward that study, right? >> sharpe: yeah. i would say take the species that's closest to man, and place more emphasis on that. >> stahl: so here's where we stand-- a rat study over here, contradicted by monkeys over here. then, there's a string of new human studies that link phthalates to problems with masculinity, but each one of them is described as "small and preliminary." even dr. swan, whose study led

to congress banning the phthalates in toys, speaks with uncertainty. are you convinced that phthalates are harmful to humans? >> swan: i'm convinced that they pose a substantial possibility of harm. i cannot conclude they are harmful without confirmation of my study and additional data. >> stahl: she says she needs more data to be sure, and yet she supports congress's action on toys. the consumer product safety commission said that these toys have "minimal to non-existent risk for these children." >> swan: i don't think we have the data to conclude that. there's... >> stahl: but they're saying you don't have the data to say the other thing, either-- that they're harmful. >> swan: we have data of harm for the fetus. we have data of harm to a nursing infant, one study. >> stahl: but the consumer product safety commission knows everything you know, right? >> swan: i assume so.

>> stahl: so, how can you look at the same data and come out with such different conclusions? >> swan: i think that the interpretation of data is difficult and changing. and at each point in time, we have to decide what is the action we, as a society, want to take. do we want to be more cautious? do we want to be less cautious? >> stahl: some manufacturers have chosen "more cautious",-- cosmetics maker avon, johnson and johnson, and s.c. johnson, on their own initiative, are taking all phthalates out of their products. cal dooley of the american chemistry council. is there a panic out there? >> dooley: no, i don't think there's a panic. >> stahl: what would you call it, because...? >> dooley: well, there are some consumers out there that have some concerns about our products, and we respect that. >> stahl: i guess what i'm asking is is the word "phthalate"-- now, does it have such a stigma that companies are going to demand you find alternatives, because they're too afraid the people won't buy their products? >> dooley: no, we're not concerned about that. we understand that consumers

really value the products that contain phthalates. the market is still strong there. we're going to continue to produce them. >> stahl: so, while scientists and the e.p.a. search for a definitive answer on whether phthalates are harmful or not, the question for the rest of us is-- should we take precautions now? if i said to you, "are phthalates harmful to humans?" what would you say? >> sharpe: i don't know. it's... it's as simple as that. >> stahl: but haven't you advised women to take precautions? >> sharpe: yeah, so... >> stahl: but based on... why, because of the rats or...? >> sharpe: well, i think that the public understandably get a bit fed up with people, like myself or other people, saying, "well, look, you know, these chemicals might cause effects. but, on the other hand, they might not." and they say, "well, look, what can i do for my baby, in case they do?" >> stahl: so, but... >> sharpe: so don't use body creams. don't go out and spray insecticide in your garden.

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poor, mostly black, and their test scores are low. only one in three finish high school. of those who do go on to college, just 5% graduate. but right in the middle of this same area is also one of the most successful and innovative public schools in the country. started in 1998, the school is called seed. it's the nation's first urban public boarding school. 91% of the students finish high school, and 95% go on to college. it's a charter school that's getting national attention. admission is by lottery, open to any family in the district willing to take a chance. >> girl 41. ( cheers and applause ) >> pitts: this family was one of the few who won the lottery last spring-- a $35,000-per-year education paid for by private and government money. >> boy 12. ( cheers and applause ) >> pitts: only a third of the over 200 or so kids who applied heard their number called.

with a child's future at stake, emotions ran high. >> 38. ( cheers and applause ) >> pitts: the grants were another family who won the chance to change their child's life. when that number was called, describe that feeling? >> it was shocking. i did not think that was going to happen. >> when he said "38," i didn't hear anything but joy. >> pitts: why does this mean so much to you? >> it's called "opportunity." we've never had that before. so, why not grab it if you can? here, you know, the sky is the limit. >> pitts: and how about you? got a big smile. is this good news? >> yes. >> pitts: seed is the brainchild of raj vannakota and eric adler, two former businessmen who quit their jobs 13 years ago to take an old idea and make it new. >> raj vinnakota: there's boarding schools for rich kids. why aren't there boarding schools for poor kids? the intense academic environment, the 24-hour aspect, and constant access to role models-- why wouldn't all of

those things be just as important for poor kids as it would be for rich kids? >> eric adler: we believe very strongly that there is a group of kids for whom the answer is a 24-hour supportive educational environment. and they're not going to have a shot if we don't give it to them. >> pitts: it all starts here. the seed campus is a four-acre oasis, a safe zone where 340 kids can focus on school free from distractions back at home. >> everyone has their own coordinate grids. >> pitts: seed's goal is to prepare these children academically and socially for college and beyond. the students enter in sixth and seventh grade, 80% of them performing below grade level. charles adams is the head of school. >> charles adams: we're a public school and we have a lottery; we get what we get. it could be an honor roll student, it could be a student three, four grade levels behind that's struggling with a number of issues at home, so we get the gamut. >> pitts: i was told you have kids who come here in the sixth grade reading at a second-grade level. is that child going to college?

>> charles adams: why not? why not? i mean... >> pitts: because they're way behind, because they don't read at a proper reading level. they're behind in math, they're behind in science. >> adams: i'll take all of that. >> pitts: they're behind in reading. >> adams: i'll take all of that. and they could be a pain in the neck. that's my starting point. >> pitts: and you think it's working? >> adams: i know it's working. >> pitts: it's a 24-hour, five- day-a-week job, which starts on sunday night, when the kids check in from their weekends at home. >> hey, ms. leach. >> ms. leach: how are you, sweety? >> pitts: they live in single- sex dorms with strict rules-- no television and no facebook. the days start early, 6:00 am, and classes run from 8:00 to 4:00. then, there's study hall, extra- curriculars, and tutoring. the day ends at 10:00. >> anthony, let's go, it's lights out. >> anthony: all right. >> pitts: this kind of structure and support is new to many of these students. >> okay, so this is the quad... >> pitts: what's also new is visiting college as early as middle school. these eighth graders went to see american university in washington, d.c.

it's all part of reminding them of their end goal. listen to these juniors. show of hands if you're absolutely confident that you're a) going to college, and b) going to graduate college? he's got both arms up, he's so sure. ( laughter ) >> seed imbeds college and success and commitment into our minds on a daily basis. it's like we build, and we live and we grow into scholars. >> pitts: scholars... now, did you have that confidence before you got here, or did...? >> no. ( laughter ) >> pitts: what gave you that confidence? >> the teachers. >> so, on the board, things that impressed you, or a question you have or something... >> pitts: teachers put extra emphasis on the basics. unlike most schools, there are two periods of english and two periods of math per day in middle school. upperclassmen are required to read 45 minutes a day, in addition to their homework. classes are small, with 10 to 15 students. >> jawan harris: clearly, you see there's a lot of dna inside these strawberries.

>> pitts: teachers like jawan harris know every student personally, their strengths and weaknesses. if a child is failing, how do you help him or her? >> harris: we usually host tutorials after school. last week, i sent out an email saying, "5:00 until they get it." >> pitts: what time did they finally get it? >> harris: i would say my last student was in here probably until about 10:45. >> pitts: 10:45? but what... >> harris: yes. ( laughs ) >> pitts: what public school teacher in d.c. works till 10:45? >> harris: i have no idea. but i know that, when i leave this building, i'm walking past my principal's office, who's in her office talking to another student, and there's another teacher still in their office, so it happens often. >> pitts: that kind of dedication and personalized instruction has paid off. >> i'm awesome! ( laughter ) >> pitts: tenth graders at seed score 40% higher in reading and 34% higher in math compared to other minority students in their area. >> i did "lamb".

>> pitts: but seed isn't just about academics; there's a life skills curriculum taught in the evenings. >> the core values are respect, responsibility, integrity, self- discipline, and compassion. >> pitts: students learn social skills, like self-discipline and etiquette. >> can anybody raise their hand and tell me why the skill of public speaking is important? >> it helps your self- confidence. >> definitely helps your self confidence. that's a good one. >> lesley poole: how's class going? >> pitts: administrator lesley poole has been at seed from the start. >> poole: no one has pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps, right? like, everyone has a story about somebody who helped them. >> pitts: and you're letting them hold onto your bootstraps and you're helping to pull them up? >> poole: i'm giving them everything i have. >> pitts: you get the sense seed is more of a calling than a job for people like poole. they don't simply have to raise a kid's test scores, they have to change their values. >> poole: i think the average middle school student comes into seed and says, "i have to do two hours of homework?

really? i have to tuck my shirt in all the time? really? i have to go to bed at 9:00 at night? i need to get eight hours sleep?" does it really take all of that just to be successful in school?" it takes all that. >> pitts: middle schoolers francis blackmon and melvin brown have learned that. they're both in the seventh grade. are you guys happy glad that you decided to... to come to seed? >> melvin brown: yes. >> francis blackmon: yes. >> pitts: do you think that you'll stay here till you graduate? >> both: yes. >> pitts: you're certain of that? >> both: yes. >> pitts: why you so certain? >> blackmon: because i know this is where i want to be, and this is where my future's going to start. >> brown: a whole new beginning of life. >> pitts: that's what seed is for you? >> brown: uh-huh. >> pitts: you guys have long school days, right? >> brown: yeah, we get out at 4:00. >> pitts: do you mind being in school that long? >> brown: no. >> pitts: no? >> brown: i'm getting more education into my brain. >> pitts: more education into your brain. >> blackmon: when you're in class and you're on a system, the teachers will take time out after school and during school to help... try to help you.

and they, like, they show compassion for you. >> pitts: compassion for you. you guys have any doubt that you're going to be successful? >> blackmon: no. >> pitts: and what does success look like? >> brown: you're always supposed to believe in yourself. >> pitts: you believe in yourself? >> brown: yes. >> blackmon: what i think success is is kind of what you're like. you're smart, intelligent. you're a nice reporter. you dress nice. your shoes are pretty. and it is that knowing that you're going to be something in life. >> pitts: you going to make it? >> blackmon: yes. >> pitts: and then there are students like 17-year-old sophomore rojay ball, who may not make it. he came here to escape his old neighborhood, where guns and gang violence are common. last year, in one turf battle, rojay was shot in the leg. weeks later, he was shot at again. but at seed, he says he feels safe. >> rojay ball: when i come here, i feel as though i can just be laid back without worrying about nobody having to attack me or say something wrong to me. >> pitts: someone could hurt you in that world? >> ball: yeah. >> pitts: someone could kill you in that world? >> ball: yeah.

>> rojay ball! >> pitts: at seed, rojay's an athlete. he's a "b" student. teacher's say he's not a trouble maker. yet his loyalty to his old neighborhood and his old friends runs deep. how many close friends do you have back in the neighborhood, number-wise? >> ball: around like ten. >> pitts: how many of those guys are going to college? >> ball: i'd say none. >> pitts: a lot of people in your life feel like you're on the fence... >> ball: uh-huh. >> pitts: ...that you could go this way and be successful, go to college, or you could go this way, and end up someplace else. do you feel that at all? >> ball: well, i always feel as though, like, i'm going to graduate from college. when i come to seed, i'm in this world where as though i'm comfortable enough to focus in class, do my homework every day, like, and i'm prepared for college. but i'm just trying to escape that world, like, my outside world. but it's something that's

right... that's just holding me up, holding me back. >> pitts: can't let it go? >> ball: i just can't. >> pitts: like a magnet, it pulls you back? >> ball: uh-huh, just like a magnet. >> pitts: you think rojay will graduate from here? >> poole: oh, i do. oh, come on, i do. >> pitts: and he will go to college? >> poole: i do. >> pitts: what makes you think rojay can be successful? this is a kid who's been shot... shot at. >> poole: i don't think it's in me to not think they can be successful. he has some capacity building in front of him, but rojay still has hope and he still has potential. and so i just assume not give up on him until, you know, until he makes it and he can believe for himself. >> pitts: that's part of the success formula here, getting these kids to believe in themselves as much as you believe in them? >> poole: we set high expectations. i think we push our students until they can own that, and they begin to set expectations for themselves. >> pitts: but some don't. seed loses 11% t0 12% of their

students every year. the reality is you can't save everybody. >> vinnakota: the reality is that we're going to work our darndest to save everybody. >> adler: we're not going to give up on any child. we are going to work to create an environment where every single child can succeed. in the end, have there been and will there be some children for whom the clock just runs out on us? sure, it happens. we'll never accept it. we will always work to make that not happen. ( cheers and applause ) >> pitts: seed's commitment to its students has brought them attention. president obama, who is looking for ways to improve inner-city schools, visited last year. >> president barack obama: this school is a true success story, a place where, for four of the last five years, every graduate from the seed school was admitted to college-- every graduate. ( applause ) >> pitts: this year's class is on track to do the same. with success like that, vinnakota and adler believe

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>> safer: there are seven billion people on the planet, and nearly five billion cell phones, meaning most of the earth's population is connected for sound, for picture, for heaven only knows what else. the cell phone has brought us a world without end of talking, twittering, texting, even of "sexting." if you don't know what that is, ask any high school kid. it's all a result of marty cooper's big idea. and he looks at it all with pride, amusement and some dismay, and with good reason-- he is the father of the cell phone. he built the first one 37 years ago. it ushered in a technological and social revolution which he believes is far from over. he made the first public cell phone call on the sidewalks of new york in 1973. >> marty cooper: this is a time

when there were no cordless phones, and certainly no cell phones. and here's this guy talking as he was walking along. and i stepped into the street and nearly got creamed by a new york taxicab. so talk about being prescient and seeing a picture of the future. >> safer: it's a future of non- stop connection, of apps galore, iphones and droids, blackberrys, and blueteeth... or is it bluetooths? >> cooper: so you really like this thing, huh? >> safer: marty cooper checks out the latest at the wireless industry's annual convention in las vegas... >> cooper: wow. >> safer: ...a huge convergence where geeks meet gizmos. >> cooper: how do i remove? i know how to add. >> safer: and unlike some of us of a certain age, he understands all of it. do you tweet or twitter? >> cooper: i signed up for twitter about six months ago, did nothing, and i had 17 followers. so now i'm actually twittering.

my latest twitter is, "the secret of successful aging is to have good genes and to show a lot of respect for the genes." >> safer: do you think you're the oldest twitterer in america? >> cooper: i don't want to be the oldest anything in america. sorry about that. >> safer: but you'll have to look hard to find anyone older on the slopes at vail, his favorite getaway. marty cooper was born in chicago on the eve of the great depression. he's 81, an age, for many, when the most strenuous exercise of the day is getting in and out of bed. >> arlene harris: his tennis and his skiing are better than they've ever been. i have a hard time keeping up with him, and i'm almost 20 years younger. >> cooper: ah! >> safer: with his wife arlene, another veteran of the mobile phone business, marty cooper is still in the game, awaiting the next big thing in wireless communication. he's convinced that the cell

phone, at 37, is still in its infancy. >> cooper: technology has to be invisible, transparent, just simple. a modern cell phone in general has an instruction book that's bigger and heavier than the cell phone. that's not right. >> safer: call it the "complexity or confusion factor." >> you can use this device to connect up to five different computers or wi-fi capable devices at one time. really cool. it's the future. welcome to the 21st century. >> safer: cooper argues that cell phones designed to do everything-- take pictures, play music and videos, surf the web-- don't do any of them really well. he thinks the buyers should be dictating exactly what they want. >> cooper: the consumer is king. the consumer ought to make the decisions, and not... certainly not the engineer. >> safer: because engineers try to dazzle other engineers rather than... >> cooper: that's right. engineers tend to get enchanted by the technology itself. you know what a jitterbug phone

is? >> no, i don't. >> safer: so it seems only natural that the latest gadget developed by cooper and his wife is a retro cell phone called the jitterbug: a basic phone-- no camera, no music. any idiot can operate it. >> cooper: try it. what do you hear? >> safer: dial tone. >> cooper: yeah, if there's dial tone, you can call. if there's no dial tone, you can't. >> safer: why'd you drag me up here on the roof? his next target: dropouts-- lost calls. atop his office building, ugly conventional cell phone antennas are disguised as flagpoles. >> cooper: they cover all this area. >> safer: he's developing so- called smart antennas that can cut through all the competing noise in the radio environment to get your call through. >> cooper: and what they do is, when we transmit, we send the information only to your phone. >> safer: you mean there is... we will reach the day when each cell phone will be perfect, or as perfect as a land line? >> cooper: that's exactly right.

>> safer: what hath marty cooper wrought? let us go, for a moment, back to the future. >> new york. calling all cars for a preview of tomorrow. >> safer: the cell's precursor, the car telephone, came in right after world war ii. >> a tiny radio transmitter sends your voice out on the airwaves to the nearest central station, where regular telephone operators can connect you with any telephone on land or sea. >> safer: world of wonders. if someone was sick, you could track down the doctor on the road. >> well, just keep him in bed, and i'll be there in ten minutes. >> safer: remember, these were the quaint old days when doctors, at least in newsreels, made house calls. >> henpecked elmer is shopping for the wife at home. >> safer: even then, it was clear that being connected would put everyone on a very short leash. >> george, i forgot to tell you. now, get me two dozen oranges, two loaves of bread, 20 pounds

of potatoes, five pounds of sugar... >> safer: and when in the '60s, at&t developed more sophisticated cellular antennas, the phone giant still considered car phones the name of the game. but marty cooper and his engineers at motorola thought otherwise, and decided to elbow their way into the business. >> cooper: we really had a basic understanding that people are mobile, and it's personal telephones they wanted. it's handheld portables. so there was a real conflict between this elephant, which was at&t, and this fly that was motorola. but we ended up winning. >> safer: on a chilly spring day, we took cooper back to the spot where he made that first call-- sixth avenue, outside the new york hilton. for the record, the call went to joel engel, cooper's rival at at&t. >> cooper: i said "joel, this is marty cooper." he says, "hi."

"i'm calling you from a cellular phone, but a real cellular phone, a hand-held portable cellular phone." and there was silence on the end of the line. >> safer: you could not resist rubbing it in? >> cooper: oh, no question about it. >> wait for a dial tone, which i hope you'll be able to hear, too... there it is. >> safer: at a news conference inside the hilton, cooper introduced his gadget and encouraged reporters to try it out. >> cooper: the first reporter i talked to actually called her mother in australia. and she was astounded when her mother answered. she couldn't understand how this little phone could talk halfway across the earth. >> safer: little phone? what are you talking about, little phone? >> cooper: well, relatively small. i mean, after all, it only weighed two and a half pounds. >> now i'll hang it up. and the only thing i can say is, "what will they think of next?" >> safer: it's still a good question. where is cell phone technology going? >> cooper: i think we are just barely scratching the surface.

>> safer: take the issue of health and fitness. a workout fanatic if there ever was one, cooper says the day is fast approaching when your phone, or something like it, will be checking your vital signs day and night. >> cooper: the health care industry is going to be revolutionized, because you will have sensors at various points of your body measuring different things. and a computer somewhere, or maybe a doctor, will be examining you all the time. >> the whole concept demonstration is built for the diabetic audience. >> safer: it's not that far- fetched. health monitoring was a major theme at that recent wireless convention in las vegas. >> cooper: the concept of the annual physical examination, it's almost worthless, because looking at your body at a point in time doesn't really tell doctors very much at all. but if you could measure these things all the time, you can predict heart failures, you can predict diabetes.

and you could prevent all those things. >> safer: from his hideaway overlooking the pacific in southern california, cooper contemplates a society where such familiar touchstones-- like money and credit cards, simple human contacts-- are things of the past, replaced by wireless devices that will rule our lives. isn't there almost a "brave new world" sense behind all of this being connected? what does it do to our privacy? >> cooper: sorry, privacy is a thing of the past. >> safer: he's got a point. security cameras track our movements, cell phones hold clues to what we've read, where we've been, and where we are. police track down suspects on facebook. and police states can no longer suppress instant images of their repression. >> cooper: i think the whole concept of privacy requires a new mindset among people. there are people who object to somebody monitoring their buying habits.

i'm delighted if people know what i buy, because they're going to tailor their marketing to me and the products that are available to me, to my tastes. well, that's a good thing. >> safer: well, yes and no. i mean, hiding something is a kind of undeniable human right, you know? to have some sense of a private life. the next gizmo could start reading our thoughts? and who wants that? >> cooper: they're not going to be able to read our minds for a few generations, if ever. >> safer: but they're working on it, though. >> cooper: yes, they are. the reason it was so huge is we had to put so much in it. >> safer: cooper is annoyed, as we all are, by his cell phone, which butted in as we were discussing the gadget's history. ( phone tweets ) >> cooper: sorry about that. >> safer: that's all right. >> cooper: i just got a notification. >> safer: i thought you had a parrot or a budgie in here. >> cooper: my droid came with

me, and it says "droid" every time i get an email message. so i corrected it; now it goes beep. >> safer: and he is philosophical on the topic of bad phone manners, that worldwide curse of other peoples' chatter, sound and fury signifying nothing. >> cooper: you know, it doesn't take a telephone to make people be either stupid or rude. they're going to be both of those. >> safer: so get used to it and don't take it out on the phone. >> oop. >> safer: they're making them shock-proof and waterproof, anyway. >> let's say you spilled something on it. >> safer: and besides, as the future bears down on us, marty cooper says, eventually, man and machine will become one. >> cooper: the optimum telephone is one that, i think, some day is going to be embedded behind your ear. it's going to have an extraordinarily powerful computer running the cell phone. and i'm going to name my computer "sam," and i'm going to

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