FROM THE FIRST CALL
TO NEXT GENERATION
1st Season
Museu do Amanhã
more than150 mil
spectators
The first call made from a cell phone was
50 years ago, on April 3, 1973
The American engineer Martin Cooper was responsible for the feat and is therefore considered "the father of the cell phone". The device used was a prototype of the DynaTAC 8000x, from Motorola, the forerunner of the cell phone as we know it today. Fifty years have passed, and since then countless technologies, features and usability have been added to the cell phone.
The “Celular 50” exhibition will bring the public an immersive experience in the history, impacts and transformations that the
cell phone caused, causes and will cause in society.
YESTERDAY
TODAY
TOMORROW
The quest to communicate at a distance has stimulated human ingenuity countless times throughout history. To overcome the limitations of time and space, we resorted to smoke signals, homing pigeons, telegraph, telephone, among other solutions…
But none of them brought so much agility and freedom
as the cell phone. A technology that has transformed the way
we access, share and produce information.
The exhibition proposes an analysis of the technological evolution
of the cell phone and the impacts it has had on society over these fifty years. It is an invitation to take a journey through time, which
from the 1st generation to the challenges and opportunities that await us in the future.
Why talk about cell phone?
Because it has become the central device of communication relations
of most of humanity
66.6% of the world´s
population has cell phone
Source: We Are Social
5 billion
cell phones
were discarded
in 2022
Source: Weee Forum
250 million
of cell lines
in Brazil, more than inhabitants
Source: Anatel
4.4 billion
of people
in the world will use
5G until 2027
Source: Stockapps.com
4.1 billion
of pictures
are taken every day on
cell phones
Source: BBC Future
91% of children
already use cell
phone at age 11
Source: Ofcom
