Indeed, it may be that the whole idea of a telephone comes to be seen as an anachronism, as personal digital devices take on a bewildering range of new functions.

ECONOMIST: Communications

For all the frantic restructuring the group remains strikingly diversified by Western standards: 98 operating companies, 28 of them listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, in a bewildering range of industries.

ECONOMIST: The Tata group

The Royal Society, Britain's national science academy, published a report that analysed the bewildering range of biofuels on the market.

ECONOMIST: Worries over biofuels could work to Britain's advantage