Our Global Cellular Cime Wave

IN RETROSPECT, it was bound to happen. The world becomes inundated in cell phones and other assorted mobile electronic communications devices. A global crime wave erupts, thousands of these expensive toys being stolen all over the world each and every day, with the attendant muggings and murders. Oftentimes, people willing to deprive others of property are somewhat less willing, but still willing, to deprive the victims of life as well. Everyone who owns a mobile gadget is constantly glued to it. Staring at the tiny screen, making faces, tapping on a tiny keyboard. All the time, everywhere. The little suckers are downright addictive. People walking down streets looking at their cell phones run into lamp posts, drop off into reflecting pools, spraining ankles, ruining perfectly good formal business attire. And the criminals and potential criminals, who are everywhere, think, "what the heck?". That poor sucker in the five hundred dollar business suit is paying no attention to his surroundings, and will never know what hit him. Nothing could be easier. Every country on earth is aware of the problem, from Latin America to the U.S. to Europe to Russia, and is searching for strategies for coping with the problem. So far, there are none. In Moscow they want to trace all phones which vanish. Other countries have other dieas. In truth, this problem will never go away without close international cooperation, because its often an international crime. Imagine that, all the nations of the world, working together. Its difficult. But it must happen, because hundreds of millions of people, all over the world, are walking down the street staring at their precious tiny screens.