In 1959, in an interview published by Canadian Press (CP) on February 3, Schramm stated that communications will become more personalized within the next 10 years and that "It is conceivable that you will be carrying around your own telephone within that time.
Schramm, in a 1959 interview with Canadian Press (CP), predicted that personal communication would become increasingly common within the next decade, suggesting that people might have their own mobile phones by then.