Business looking into Aesop's mirror, there to see current fads and follies fused to timeless fables? The BESTIARY FOR BUSINESS is doing just that. Today, all of us are in business in one way or another. We are the captives, participants, cheer leaders, anti-heroes or economically injured people in a national and global game. If one listens carefully, one will hear that much of the fun and fairness have gone from economic activities. So if these fables produce some smiles or even relief for annoyance, that would be great. The players in the BESTIARY are (innocent) animals with human...

When the Berlin-based cultural magazine LETTRE INTERNATIONAL organized its philosophical essay competition, it received 2,481 submissions in seven languages from 123 countries. Juries chose 33 authors as finalists: this essay is one of these short-listed papers. It sends a farewell to the twentieth and a welcome to the tweny-first century. The essay deals with physical travels from the voyages of dicovery to our more mental journeys through cyberspace. It looks at communications, world history, developments from Gutenberg's printing press to the Internet, and much more. In doing this, it...