Back in 1999, Douglas Adams wrote an interesting piece on the then very new consumer internet.

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Douglas Adams died in 2001, having written five of the enduringly popular Hitchhiker books - still inaccurately dubbed a trilogy.

BBC: And another thing...

More proof that seemingly earth-shaking findings (like, say, bacteria with arsenic in their DNA) are often not true but will make you wish Douglas Adams was around to write about them.

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Douglas Adams, a director at Templeton, recalls how his firm had convinced one customer to invest in a Templeton fund until the customer's German bank held up the money transfer and reminded the customer of its own products.

ECONOMIST: Fund management