True brilliance is when you say something that makes others think "yes, of course; why hadn't I thought of that?"

I just read an amazing article on Douglas Adams' site, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, published in 1999, that is amazingly prescient in regards to a lot of significant things that have arisen between then and now. There are a lot of themes that run through the essay, but my favorite is about interactivity, and the ludicrous notion that we needed to invent a word to describe something so fundamental to human nature:
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