Investment opportunities in cellular telephony

Everyone’s on the phone. The boatmen, the vaporetto drivers, the polizotti, the fishmongers, the buskers, the drunks. The passers by. The passers by: Venetians walk fast – this is a walking city – each with a phone pressed tight to his skull, talking as fast as he walks. (A few have earphones and appear to be talking loudly to themselves). I look at these people in utter disbelief: what on earth do they have to say that can possibly be worth saying? And who is listening, and – why?