While Slovakia has experienced during the decades of totalitarianism political limitations to free information until 1989, for 20 years now it has entered formally the free "western" world, where information is accessible, especially since the introduction of internet and the like. Our world has gradually changed - we became more dynamic, more global, and more technological. IT-technological that is: Our borders have somewhat vanished, and we can nowadays access instantaneously electronic data whether from Anchorage or Auckland.

This would, in theory, give us a grand virtual mobility, where the geographic distances are irrelevant. On the one hand, as we became more computer literate (let's admit it - how many people were 25 years ago knowledgeable about RAM, kbps, IP, UTLs and you name it) we have a rich scala of comparison at our fingertips; in the event I recall a certain title by e.g. Jane Austen, I can google the book and eventually legally download it, or read some background info on it. All within a few minutes. In the old days, I could visit the nearest