"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Dear Douglas was one of the only people I've had a huge fanboy crush on (when I was a boy....), having grown up loving the original radio version of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was lucky enough to meet him a couple of times when I was a college student. An incredibly wise and funny man - gone far too soon.
[I recently happened upon this rarity, stored on The Internet Archive: a BBC documentary from 1990, written and presented by Douglas, called Hyperland; an exploration of then 'cutting-edge' ideas about the imminent possibilities for new ways of of interacting with computers to share information and create new experiences: Artificial Intelligence, search engines, interactive multimedia and Virtual Reality.]
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