What follows is a brief excursus mapping the elusiveness of concepts, which, in the best of the postmodern tradition, are sliding signifiers. Any heuristical analysis of terms such as learning society, knowledge-base society/economy, network society or globalization, should trace the origins of the term to a particular document or author. For instance, the economist Theodore Levitt is credited with coining the term "globalization" in 1985 to describe changes in global economics affecting production, consumption, and investment. The term quickly become a celebrity in the world of business and social sciences appearing to demonstrate that international exchanges are affecting in many forms the way large segments of the world's population work, live, and relate to culture, education and apparently everything else.