Mo Qishen carried Ni Yang’s shoes in one hand and held her hand with the other, "Yangyang, look at that person."
"Which one?" Ni Yang asked.
Mo Qishen continued, "The one wearing a blue jacket and holding something like a black brick."
"I see him." Ni Yang nodded.
Mo Qishen said, "That’s called a wireless mobile phone. Next year, Guangguan will establish the first batch of wireless telephone systems. Once mobile phones become popular, we can stay in touch anytime, anywhere!"
Wireless phone?
Ni Yang’s eyes suddenly lit up, realizing that the first mobile phones had entered China in 1987!
In fact, the mobile phone was not initially known as a mobile phone; its original name was a wireless mobile phone.
This name originated from the Cantonese and Hongkongers way of jokingly referring to gang leaders. In some early Hong Kong movies, mob bosses frequently appeared on screen with mobile phones, hence people began to jokingly call these mobile phones as "Big Brother phones."
After a while, more people started calling it that, and it became the Big Brother phone.
Moreover, the Big Brother phone was invented as early as 1972 and had already been popular for many years abroad; it just hadn’t entered China until then.
After the Big Brother phone, technology will advance further, our motherland will become stronger, and phones will get thinner!
Ni Yang’s lips curved into a smile, "If Guangguan uses it well, I believe it will soon be popularized in Beijing. A good communication tool can solve many unnecessary troubles."
Ni Yang’s business was growing bigger and bigger, and in an era with undeveloped communication information, it was often really frustrating.
Fortunately, technological progress was becoming faster and faster.
Mo Qishen nodded, "I predict that we will be able to use mobile phones at the beginning of the year after next."
Ni Yang said with a smile, "Mobile phones are convenient, but they’re too big and not easy to carry. This type of mobile phone must weigh about two or three jin, right?"
Ni Yang remembered that the earliest mobile phones weighed around two kilograms, which was like three boxes of milk, the weight of a large brick!
Mo Qishen nodded, "These mobile phones are indeed quite heavy. However, humanity is progressing, technology is developing, and I believe that just like pagers, this is only the beginning; it will get better and better!"
Once mobile phones become widespread, pagers will be eliminated!
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