Jan Krikke is a former Tokyo correspondent for various media and the former managing editor of Asia 2000 in Hong Kong. He pioneered the study of the origin of axonometry, (the Chinese equivalent of European linear perspective). Krikke is the author "Creating Planetary Culture", "Leibniz, Einstein, and China", and he is the editor of "A Futurist for the 21st Century: The Macrohistory of Lawrence Taub."